Mastering Vocabulary Skills Book

	Introduction	1
Chapter 1	A Word to the Wise	5
Chapter 2	Word Parts	9
Chapter 3	Words to Make Your Parents Think You're Wise	15
Chapter 4	Words to Make Your Teachers Think You're Wise	19
Chapter 5	Words to Make Your Boss Think You're Wise	23
Chapter 6	Words to Make Your Boss Think You're Not Very Wise	27
Chapter 7	Words to Make Your Friends Think You're Wiser Than They	31
Chapter 8	Wise or Not So Wise-Ways to Improve a Research Paper	35
Chapter 9	A Wise Person Has Many Friends	39
Chapter 10	You're Wiser Than Most if You Know These Words	43
Chapter 11	Wise Words for Talk-Show Guests	47
Chapter 12	Gimme a W, Gimme an H, Gimme a Y, Gimme an S!	51
Chapter 13	With These Words, You Could Play a Wise Doctor on TV	57
Chapter 14	It Would Be Wise to Watch Your Ps and Qs	61
Chapter 15	It Would Be Wise to Watch Your Ps and Qs, Part 2	67
Chapter 16	The Wise Guys: The Newest Boy-Band Sensation	71
Chapter 17	Is It Really Wise to Have Your Head Shrunk?	75
Chapter 18	Just How Wise are Know-It-Alls?	81
Chapter 19	A Wise Investment?	85
Chapter 20	Infomercial Products: A Wise Buy?	89
Chapter 21	Wise Words from Country Music	93
Chapter 22	Words to Make Your Music Teacher Think You're Wise (Sort of)	97
Chapter 23	It Wouldn't Be Wise to Take This Guy Home to Meet the Parents	103
Chapter 24	Sometimes It Is Wise to Use Four-Letter Words, Part 1	107
Chapter 25	Sometimes It Is Wise to Use Four-Letter Words, Part 2	111
Chapter 26	Wise Words about Using Words	115
Chapter 27	Words of Wisdom for the Next Time You Call a Plumber	119
Chapter 28	A Wise Person Knows All That Glitters Isn't Gold	125
Chapter 29	It's Probably Wise to Avoid Children's TV	129
Chapter 30	You're Wiser than Practically Everybody Else If You Know These Words	135
Chapter 31	A Wise Person Also Knows the Lighter Side of History	139
Chapter 32	O Wise One	143
Chapter 33	A Wise Person Knows: Too Risque or Not Risque	149
Chapter 34	Choose Wisely When Buying a Used Car	153
Chapter 35	Choose Wisely When Choosing Your Coffee	157
Chapter 36	Movies You'd Be Wise Not to See	161
Chapter 37	The First Annual Wise Awards	165
Chapter 38	A Fashion-Wise Person Knows What's Fashionable and What's Not	171
Chapter 39	It Would Be Wise Not to Take Yourself Too Seriously	175
Chapter 40	You Are the Wisest of the Wise if You Can Add these Words to Your Vocabulary	179
Chapter 41	Now, Don't You Feel Infinitely Wiser Than You Did at the Beginning of This Book?	183
	Crossword Puzzle Answer Key	189
	Appendix	193