Vocabulary Cartoons II: Building an Educated Vocabulary With Sight and Sound Memory AIDS

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Summary: More Words Everyone Should Know
Review: Vocabulary Cartoons II contains 290 key words presented through cartoons.

Each word contains a "link" word which is intended to serve as a mnemonic device, helping you to associate the new word to the word that you may be more familiar with. A good deal of the "link" words rhyme with the "key" word. To make the association even easier, the authors have provided a phrase which is easy to remember as in "We LAMENT that Joe got buried in CEMENT". This phrase is portrayed through a cartoon, providing a visual mnemonic.

Under each cartoon, you'll find three sentences with contexts where it may be appropriate to use the "key" word. These examples will also help you to develop the feel for the word, as well as to create more associations to the key word.

The authors have appropriately said that this book is "for everyone". The words in this vocabulary book seem to be for the most part on a high-school level. The words in Vocabulary Cartoons II are no harder than those in the Vocabulary Cartoons - you just get to learn more words.

For greater challenge, you may want to check out Verbal Advantage.