The Mysteries of English Vocabulary

Author: Jiang Zheng
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Publish Date: 2000-01-25
Features: This book aims to help readers understand the intrinsic patterns of English words and introduce an effective method for learning them, enabling readers to master a large number of words quickly. By revealing the mysteries of English words, it helps readers realize that learning and memorizing English words is not difficult and that there are shortcuts to follow. Starting with etymology, the book analyzes words to explain that the core of a word is its root and helps readers understand the importance of roots: recognizing a root allows you to recognize a group of words.
The book selects 252 roots as the foundation, grouping words with the same root together and providing examples of word analysis to help readers understand how words are constructed and how meanings arise. Once readers master the ability to analyze words, they can master a large vocabulary. The latter part of the book covers affixes, including 124 prefixes and 165 suffixes. All commonly used affixes are included. Polysemous affixes are explained with examples categorized by meaning. The example words are all common ones to facilitate recognition and understanding.
This book aims to help readers understand the intrinsic patterns of English words, introduce an effective method for learning them, enable readers to master a large number of words quickly, and reveal the mysteries of English words to help readers realize that learning and memorizing English words is not difficult and that there are shortcuts to follow. Starting with etymology, the book analyzes words to explain that the core of a word is its root and helps readers understand the importance of roots: recognizing a root allows you to recognize a group of words.
The book selects 252 roots as the foundation, grouping words with the same root together and providing examples of word analysis to help readers understand how words are constructed and how meanings arise. Once readers master the ability to analyze words, they can master a large vocabulary. The latter part of the book covers affixes, including 124 prefixes and 165 suffixes. All commonly used affixes are included. Polysemous affixes are explained with examples categorized by meaning. The example words are all common ones to facilitate recognition and understanding.