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Building a better vocabulary [digital videodisc].

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Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, c2015.

Vocabulary -- Study and teaching.

Language arts -- Social aspects.

Great courses (DVD). Professional.

6 videodiscs (1080 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course book (vi, 283 pages : black and white illustrations ; 19 cm.)

Disc 1. Five principles for learning vocabulary -- The spelling-meaning connection -- Words for lying, swindling, and conniving -- Words that express annoyance and disgust -- Fighting words and peaceful words -- Going beyond dictionary meanings. -- Disc 2. Wicked words -- Words for beginnings and endings -- Words expressing fear, love, and hatred -- Words for the everyday and the elite -- Words from gods and heroes -- Humble words and prideful words -- Disc 3. High-frequency Greek and Latin roots -- Words relating to belief and trust -- Words for the way we talk -- Words for praise, criticism, and nonsense -- Eponyms from literature and history -- Thinking, teaching, and learning words -- Disc 4. Words for the diligent and the lazy -- Words that break and words that join -- Some high-utility Greek and Latin affixes -- Cranky words and cool words -- Words for courage and cowardice -- Reviewing vocabulary through literature -- Disc 5. Words for killing and cutting -- A vocabulary grab bag -- Words for words -- Specialty words for language -- Nasty words and nice words -- Words for the really big and the very small -- Disc 6. Spelling as a vocabulary tool -- A medley of new words -- Building vocabulary through games -- Words English borrowed and never returned -- More foreign loan words -- Forgotten words and neologisms.

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