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Unit 1 Places
Word List 2
1-1. A Large City, a Dock, and More 4
1-2. The Letters C and R Stand for Themselves 5
1-3. Find the Three Words 6
1-4. A Colorful Matching Column 7
Unit 2 Beg, Borrow, and Steal
Word List 10
2-1. Start with a Capital 12
2-2. Patriotism Is In! 13
2-3. Sliding Along 14
2-4. No Need to Beg, Borrow, or Steal 15
Unit 3 What's That You Say?
Word List 18
3-1. Relating Them 20
3-2. Ego Man 21
3-3. Who Is Theodore Geisel? 22
3-4. Three-Letter Adjectives 23
3-5. Units 1-3 Crossword Puzzle Review 24
Review Test Units 1-3 25
Unit 4 Clean Your Room!
Word List 28
4-1. Find the Proverb 30
4-2. There Once Was a Man 31
4-3. Look for Those Second Letters 32
4-4. Two Words and Two Girls 33
Unit 5 How We Act
Word List 36
5-1. Clumps of Letters 38
5-2. Why Start with Something Crude? 39
5-3. What Is an Amazon? 40
5-4. Music to Your Ears 41
Unit 6 Words from Mythology
Word List 44
6-1. A Monstrous Affair to Say the Least 46
6-2. Headlines! 47
6-3. Five Will Get You Forty 48
6-4. Start with Zeus 49
Review Test Units 4-6 51
Unit 7 The Big and Small of It All
Word List 54
7-1. Fifteen and Five 56
7-2. Floating Like a Butterfly 57
7-3. Spinning Around 58
7-4. Change a Letter (or Two) 59
Unit 8 Tell It Like It Is
Word List 62
8-1. It's What They Said 65
8-2. You Only Hear Its First Letter 66
8-3. O! Those Prefixes Ending with O! 67
8-4. Under the Sea 68
Unit 9 The Sciences (Naturally!)
Word List 70
9-1. Searching for Those Science Words 72
9-2. Let's Start with "No" for Some of These 73
9-3. Finding the Three-Letter Words 74
9-4. Figuring Out the Science Words 75
Review Test Units 7-9 77
Unit 10 Mathematically Inclined
Word List 80
10-1. Just Do the Math 82
10-2. Overheard in Math Class 83
10-3. What Is It Called? 84
10-4. Famous Names in Mathematics 85
Unit 11 How We Move
Word List 88
11-1. Just Move It! 91
11-2. How Would You Move If .? 92
11-3. Newspaper Captions 93
11-4. Don't Be Staggering Through This Puzzle! 94
Unit 12 Write On!
Word List 96
12-1. I'd Like to Read 98
12-2. Legends Amongst Us 99
12-3. Literary Crossword 100
12-4. Really Researching 101
Review Test Units 10-12 103
Unit 13 Popular SAT Words
Word List 106
13-1. Let's Go Fishing 108
13-2. The Fourth-of-July Special 109
13-3. To the Nth Degree 110
13-4. By a Nose 111
Unit 14 What We'd Like Said About Us
Word List 114
14-1. End with James Bond 116
14-2. Don't Tell This to Babe Ruth or Michael Jordan! 117
14-3. Illustrative Examples 118
14-4. And Now for the One Noun Form 119
Unit 15 To a Degree
Word List 122
15-1. Placing Them In 124
15-2. Where Did the Word Number Go? 125
15-3. Triple the Number 126
15-4. Hey! Some Letters Are Missing! 127
Review Test Units 13-15 129
Unit 16 All Types of People
Word List 132
16-1. Who Said It? 134
16-2. All Sorts of People 135
16-3. Politically Speaking 136
16-4. Have You Seen the .? 137
Unit 17 An Interesting Combination of Words
Word List 140
17-1. Coming or Going There Late 142
17-2. People Will Not Be Mad at Us This Time 143
17-3. Who Said What? 144
17-4. All Fifteen 145
Unit 18 All in the Family
Word List 148
18-1. It's a Family Affair 150
18-2. Double-Letter Words 151
18-3. No Feuding Within the Family Here 152
18-4. Headlines 153
Review Test Units 16-18 155
Unit 19 Skilled-Or Not So Skilled
Word List 158
19-1. Be an Exemplary Student 160
19-2. Positive and Negative Words 161
19-3. Which Does Not Belong-And Why? 162
19-4. Inventors and Inventions 163
Unit 20 Here, There, and Everywhere
Word List 166
20-1. Your Mother Is What Kind of an Engineer? 168
20-2. Adverbs Galore! 169
20-3. Making Your Way Around Analogies 170
20-4. How Simple! 171
Unit 21 Smart-Or Not So Smart
Word List 174
21-1. Do You Have the Smarts? 176
21-2. Do You Have the Skill? 177
21-3. Expanding Your Vocabulary 178
21-4. World Capitals 179
Review Test Units 19-21 181
Unit 22 A Bit Different
Word List 184
22-1. A Traitor, a Criminal, and the Rest 186
22-2. Finding the Countries 187
22-3. People and What They Said 188
22-4. Where Did the Word Maestro Come From? 189
Unit 23 How (or Not How) to Say It
Word List 192
23-1. It's Not That Greek to You! 195
23-2. U-R That Clever! 196
23-3. This Is So Easy! 197
23-4. A Very Silly Poem 198
Unit 24 Gone!
Word List 200
24-1. Two at a Time 202
24-2. Water, Water Everywhere 203
24-3. "-Ury" Is In 204
24-4. Count on It to Be One of the First 205
Review Test Units 22-24 207
Unit 25 Age
Word List 210
25-1. The Last Letters 212
25-2. Starting Fresh 213
25-3. One Hundred Years and Counting 214
25-4. Ponce de Leon's Search 215
Unit 26 Who Wants to Be Called That?
Word List 218
26-1. All Types of Behaviors and Moods 220
26-2. Identifying the Person 221
26-3. Obstinate Is the Way to Go Here 222
26-4. Care to Do This Over Breakfast? 223
Unit 27 How Much-Or How Little
Word List 226
27-1. We Want No Dearth of Correct Answers Here! 228
27-2. What Have You Wrought? 229
27-3. Large or Small or Just Enough? 230
27-4. Sounds Like 231
Review Test Units 25-27 233
Unit 28 Social Studies Class
Word List 236
28-1. Take One, Then Two, and Then #15 Does It Alone 238
28-2. Let's Call It a Tie-At Least in Points 239
28-3. Words Within Words 240
28-4. Do You Know Your U.S. Presidents? 241
Unit 29 Science Class
Word List 244
29-1. Making Sense Out of Science 246
29-2. Science Words 247
29-3. The Dictionary to the Rescue? 248
29-4. The Parade of Scientists 249
Unit 30 All About the Senses
Word List 252
30-1. A Crossword for the Senses 254
30-2. The Final Letters 255
30-3. Just Add Some Sweeteners 256
30-4. Sensing Your Capability 257
Review Test Units 28-30 259
List of Words by Unit 261
Words Included in This Book 269
Answer Key 273
