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    Vocabulary Energizers: Volume 2: Stories of Word Origins
    Vocabulary Energizers: Volume 2: Stories of Word Origins
    Vocabulary Energizers: Volume 2: Stories of Word Origins
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    Vocabulary Energizers: Volume 2: Stories of Word Origins

    Written by David Popkin

    Narrated by Robert O'Keefe

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    About this audiobook

    Focusing on a core of 100 words, this book builds vocabulary by presenting histories and background stories of those words, linking these words to hundreds of synonyms and antonyms and including informative exercises.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateApr 6, 2012
    ISBN9781464044410
    Vocabulary Energizers: Volume 2: Stories of Word Origins

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