Vocabulary Power 2, Vol. 2 Book

CHAPTER 1

Key Words: analyze, assist, construct, debt, distribute, intend, master, reflect, rival, witness

Readings: Personal Finance for Teenagers

CHAPTER 2

Key Words: available, concentrate, consultant, data, edit, issue, obvious, stiff, term, trial

Readings: Putting a Stop to Teenage Hacking Crimes

CHAPTER 3

Key Words: accurate, classic, critic, encourage, exhibit, firm, label, prejudice, process, tempt

Readings: Salsa Music Energizes Japan

QUIZ 1

Key Words from Chapters 1—3

CHAPTER 4

Key Words: benefit, contrast, convenience, insure, lessen, locate, logic, rate, require, scale

Readings: Setting Up Operations in Sunny Spain

CHAPTER 5

Key Words: attitude, contribute, establish, fade, identify, pressure, quote, reputation, spare, wander

Readings: Family Dinners: A Surprising Anti-drug

CHAPTER 6

Key Words: appoint, astonish, calculate, challenge, concept, drag, extend, extreme, mere, passage

Readings: Space Elevator

QUIZ 2

Key Words from Chapters 4—6

CHAPTER 7

Key Words: aim, approach, current, custom, generation, influence, moral, preserve, regard, style

Readings: Professor and Students Help Ancient Culture Live On

CHAPTER 8

Key Words: broad, comment, effective, focus, goal, mercy, neglect, otherwise, scene, tear

Readings: The Photography of Edward Burtynsky

CHAPTER 9

Key Words: accuse, authority, bribe, brief, graceful, immense, involve, root, seek, visible

Readings: How Common Is Bribery around the World?

QUIZ 3

Key Words from Chapters 7—9

CHAPTER 10

Key Words: affect, crush, declare, export, instant, precious, publish, scatter, severe, wound

Readings: Saving the Amazon

CHAPTER 11

Key Words: acquire, bitter, consume, dare, discipline, humble, inspect, participate, remedy, yield

Readings: Healing Art for Children in Hospitals

CHAPTER 12

Key Words: alternative, boast, boundary, community, liberty, media, network, tradition, variety, weave

Readings: Rocketboom: A Model for Video Blogs

QUIZ 4

Key Words from Chapters 10—12

CHAPTER 13

Key Words: assume, bar, conscience, deceive, display, omit, qualify, solemn, thorough, volume

Readings: The Model Who Became a Monk

CHAPTER 14

Key Words: deserve, elect, ensure, essential, lack, manage, method, purchase, task, unite

Readings: Home Schooling

CHAPTER 15

Key Words: coarse, colony, dust, empire, march, psychology, rejoice, revenge, tremble, valley

Readings: How Skiing Changed Norwegian History

QUIZ 5

Key Words from Chapters 13—15

CHAPTER 16

Key Words: absence, associate, bend, drama, limb, oppose, positive, propose, slight, struggle

Readings: Sumo Is Spreading Around the World

CHAPTER 17

Key Words: behave, excessive, expert, fierce, investigate, joint, migrate, outcome, roar, track

Readings: Students Get Polar Bear Cyber Visit

CHAPTER 18

Key Words: consist, defi ne, exclude, formula, govern, imitate, license, nest, poverty, tend

Reading: Living Long, Living Well

QUIZ 6

Key Words from Chapters 16—18

CHAPTER 19

Key Words: administration, claim, credit, earnest, heap, key, option, restrict, sacrifice, strike

Readings: How Hurricanes Changed History

CHAPTER 20

Key Words: aid, basis, caution, conscious, culture, deed, distinguish, idle, profit, worth

Readings: Traveling Abroad with a Purpose

CHAPTER 21

Key Words: agriculture, fate, mend, occur, quantity, region, relate, rid, stem, urge

Readings: Diversity Protects the Health of the World

QUIZ 7

Key Words from Chapters 19—21

CHAPTER 22

Key Words: burst, commerce, creep, descend, harbor, major, odd, prompt, roast, suspect

Readings: New Zealand: On and Off Camera

CHAPTER 23

Key Words: achieve, constant, corporation, latter, nuisance, pale, represent, sting, sweat, wreck

Readings: iPods Not Helping Music Sales

CHAPTER 24

Key Words: bear, delicate, individual, legal, offend, previous, prohibit, pronounce, reasonable, seize

Readings: Working Without an Accent

QUIZ 8

Key Words from Chapters 22—24

CHAPTER 25

Key Words: branch, coward, district, guarantee, justice, kneel, merchant, punctual, temper, vain

Readings: Exploring Ancient Inca Trails

CHAPTER 26

Key Words: accord, desert, efficient, gap, income, injure, resign, scarce, stock, survey

Readings: Government Help for Parents

CHAPTER 27

Key Words: assign, awkward, decay, gender, lean, peculiar, pump, seed, shield, swear

Readings: Native Americans Choose New Habits to Fight Diabetes

QUIZ 9

Key Words from Chapters 25—27

CHAPTER 28

Key Words: decade, fault, feature, judge, labor, pack, rank, respond, swell, tender

Readings: Film Review: Coppola’s The Outsiders

CHAPTER 29

Key Words: debate, draft, glory, hollow, ink, mental, refer, scold, soul, virtue

Readings: How Do You Picture The Life of Pi?

CHAPTER 30

Key Words: ambition, character, conquer, despair, image, minimum, pinch, pride, scorn, series

Readings: Cooking with Rachel Ray

QUIZ 10

Key Words from Chapters 28—30

APPENDIX:

Understanding Word Parts

WORD INDEX