Fiske WordPower: The Amazing New Way to Build Your Vocabulary Book

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Quiz
Study Plan

Stage One: Consciousness

Chapter 1: Short Words
Chapter 2: Putting Together/Taking Apart
Chapter 3: Down from Mount Olympus
Quick Quiz #1
Chapter 4: Give and Take
Chapter 5: The Menagerie
Chapter 6: Talking About Talking
Quick Quiz #2
Chapter 7: What’s In? Who’s Out?
Chapter 8: Something’s Coming
Chapter 9: The Art of Losing
Quick Quiz #3
Usage Test #1
Chapter 10: What’s Cookin’?
Chapter 11: Fortune’s Fool
Chapter 12: Stubborn as a Mule
Quick Quiz #4
Chapter 13: Miss Manners
Chapter 14: Be Bloody, Bold, and Resolute
Chapter 15: Oddballs
Quick Quiz #5
Chapter 16: Work Ethic
Chapter 17: Words For the Ages
Chapter 18: True Believers
Quick Quiz #6
Usage Test #2
Chapter 19: Enemies, Adversaries, and Antagonists
Chapter 20: Comrades, Cohorts, and Companions
Chapter 21: Sounds Like, Smells Like
Quick Quiz #7
Chapter 22: Them Thar’s Fightin’ Words
Chapter 23: I’m Against That-Or Am I Next to It?
Chapter 24: Splendor in the Grass
Quick Quiz #8
Chapter 25: Farrago
Chapter 26: I Beg of You
Chapter 27: Me, Myself, and I
Quick Quiz #9
Usage Test #3
Chapter 28: I Just Don’t Understand You
Chapter 29: What A Relief
Chapter 30: Bad Guys
Quick Quiz #10
Chapter 31: Not-Quite-Naughty Words
Chapter 32: “The Stream I Go A-fishing In”
Chapter 33: Confound It!
Quick Quiz #11
Chapter 34: Earth, Air, Fire, Water
Chapter 35: Lighten Up!
Chapter 36: Don’t Yell at Me!
Quick Quiz #12
Usage Test #4

Stage Two: Competence

Chapter 37: Speech Therapy
Chapter 38: How Deep Is the Ocean, How High Is the Sky?
Chapter 39: Sycophants Galore
Quick Quiz #13
Chapter 40: Down with Everybody
Chapter 41: Oh What a Tangled Web
Chapter 42: The Words of War
Quick Quiz #14
Chapter 43: Bored and Lazy
Chapter 44: See What I Mean?
Chapter 45: In Sickness and Health
Quick Quiz #15
Usage Test #5
Chapter 46: Mad as a Hatter
Chapter 47: Play It Again, Sam
Chapter 48: What a Mess!
Quick Quiz #16
Chapter 49: Keep It Clean
Chapter 50: How Divine!
Chapter 51: Godliness Redux
Quick Quiz #17
Chapter 52: Hodgepodge
Chapter 53: Too Much
Chapter 54: Not Enough
Quick Quiz #18
Usage Test #6
Chapter 55: Send in the Clowns
Chapter 56: Dionysian or Apollonian?
Chapter 57: All in the Family
Quick Quiz #19
Chapter 58: Yield…or Don’t Yield
Chapter 59: Bits and Pieces
Chapter 60: Darkness, My Old Friend
Quick Quiz #20
Chapter 61: Do It In Style
Chapter 62: Scary Things
Chapter 63: No End in Sight
Quick Quiz #21
Usage Test #7
Chapter 64: Om
Chapter 65: Oy
Chapter 66: Chalk Talk
Quick Quiz #22
Chapter 67: Over the Rainbow
Chapter 68: How Sweet It Is
Chapter 69: Sourpuss
Quick Quiz #23
Chapter 70: The Wonderful World of “O”
Chapter 71: The Play’s the Thing
Chapter 72: Not Fully Defined
Quick Quiz #24
Usage Test #8

Stage Three: Mastery

Chapter 73: The Blues…and Other Unpleasant States of Mind
Chapter 74: Get Happy
Chapter 75: Eponyms
Quick Quiz #25
Chapter 76: Gallimaufry
Chapter 77: Bright Lights! Loud Music!
Chapter 78: Crime and Punishment
Quick Quiz #26
Chapter 79: Words, for a Change
Chapter 80: High Finance
Chapter 81: What’s My Line?
Quick Quiz #27
Usage Test #9
Chapter 82: The Body and Beyond
Chapter 83: Off and On
Chapter 84: Who’s the Boss?
Quick Quiz #28
Chapter 85: Man is a Political Animal
Chapter 86: Quarantine Ward
Chapter 87: Bottoms Up!
Quick Quiz #29
Chapter 88: Home Furnishings
Chapter 89: Country Yokel or City Slicker?
Chapter 90: How Interesting
Quick Quiz #30
Usage Test #10
Chapter 91: On the Road
Chapter 92: Parlez-Vous Anglais?
Chapter 93: Achtung!
Quick Quiz #31
Chapter 94: Weighty Words
Chapter 95: What’s in a Name?
Chapter 96: Am I Timid? Or Are You Intimidating?
Quick Quiz #32
Chapter 97: Have Mercy!
Chapter 98: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Chapter 99: Potpourri
Chapter 100: We’re Out of Here
Quick Quiz #33
Usage Test #11
Final Exam

Postscript: More Practice
Answer Key
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