Shaping the content of a college-level vocabulary-building course is never easy. This is especially the case when the students enrolled are likely to be pursuing a great range of academic majors from medicine to law, from literature to geology, from psychology to mathematics.
Greek and Latin in English Today is a vocabulary-builder par excellence, with the added advantage that it builds understanding of the critical roles Greek and Latin played in the development of English. The book’s incremental approach and reinforcing exercises bring vocabulary building into everyone’s reach.
The book also includes lucid explanations of the metric system, Roman numerals, and other classification systems; and exercises aimed at reinforcing each chapter’s lesson. A section deals with Greek and Latin in the development of specialized nomenclature in science, medicine, law, and the arts.
Special Features
- 32 brief chapters on the Latin and Greek derivatives of both common and technical/professional contemporary vocabulary
- Charts including geologic time, Indo-European family of languages, subatomic particles, and early alphabets
- Over a dozen anatomical diagrams, map showing the spread of language in Europe, map of the moon, plus other images from antiquity
- Lists of animal names, educational degrees, cognates, vocabulary, and more
- Hundreds of exercises
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