Melvin Gordon Books

Enhance your vocabulary in just 15 minutes a day with 1100 Words You Need to Know .  Relied on by students for 50 years!Over the years, thousands of students preparing for the SAT, ACT, GRE, and other standardized tests have relied on 1100 Words You Need to Know as an ideal way to strengthen their word power. With this brand-new edition, test prep expert Richard Carriero provides a fully updated and invaluable resource for students— or for anyone who wants to boost their vocabulary . 1100 Words You Need to Know features a weekly program with six words to learn each day and one day for review. With just 15 minutes a day, you’ll learn everything you need to improve your reading, writing, and speaking skills.This fully revised edition Online Practice

A Barron's bestseller for years, this book is better than ever in a brand new fourth edition. In addition to its standard vocabulary lists, this edition includes a new section called Panorama of Words. In this feature, each of the 1100 words appears in a sentence selected from among well known novels, plays, poems, and even newspaper editorials and TV broadcasts. The book is a vocabulary builder aimed directly at college-bound high school students, as well as college students who need extra vocabulary help. Students will find word lists with definitions, analogy exercises, entertaining word games, and fascinating words-in-context exercises.