Upgrade Your English Vocabulary Skills

By Winn Trivette II, MA

Upgrade Your English Vocabulary Skills is your best study aide if you need a richer word power for greater career success.

Always make a memorably first impression with the right word at the right time to impress your friends, colleagues (the boss!), and clients.

Thankfully, Upgrade Your English Vocabulary Skills is your valuable combination of 3 texts to sharpen your lexicon.

The 3 books are:

Book 1: Top 75 Misused English Word Pairs

Book 2: 303 Words You Need to Know

Book 3: 181 Best English Collocations, Idioms, and Phrasal Verbs

Each text is written by a veteran CELTA-certified English teacher who has helped candidates just like you reach their career goals.

This comprehensive volume gives you a broad exposure to English vocabulary in three accessible books full of lessons to:

• use commonly confused terms expertly
• study thematic lists organized by category, and finally
• ease your fear of collocations, idioms, and phrasal verbs.

All come with quizzes to test your progress.

Professor Winn shares his own advice given to his own students so you are better able to get that promotion, sell more to clients, or ace the IELTS or TOEFL exam.

Be better prepared for a rewarding career whether at university or the office with stronger writing skills in our global economy.

Get your copy of Upgrade Your English Vocabulary Skills today!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Winn Trivette II, MA
• Release date: Jan 5, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393962229

Winn Trivette II, MA

Winn Trivette II, MA, is a CELTA-certified veteran English as Second Language professor, who currently teaches IELTS and TOEFL preparation to international candidates at a medical recruiting firm.

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WHY YOU NEED THIS BOOK

VOCABULARY IS A MATTER of word-building as well as word-using. - David Crystal

Many native and non-native English speakers find building a strong vocabulary an insurmountable challenge.

Stop!

Upgrade Your English Vocabulary Skills is a valuable collection of 3 books that help you increase your word power for greater success in your career.

Whether you want a promotion at the office, seek better words to use for your next essay, or face the unnerving task to ace the IELTS or TOEFL exam, you need a rich reservoir of terms to help you.

Use this package of lessons and quizzes (four complete texts) to methodically and progressively increase and extend your lexicon in order to communicate clearly and persuasively whatever context.

Like it or not, your friends, colleagues (and the boss), and your clients judge your intelligence by the words you use.

Make the best first impression!

Rely on the expert advice of Professor Winn, a veteran English instructor, to guide you to a larger vocabulary from the start!

Here are the three (3) topline texts to boost your word power:

Book 1: Top 75 Misused English Word Pairs – Avoid these commonly confused English terms!

Book 2: 303 Words You Need to Know – Instantly increase your word power with these terms divided by thematic categories with quizzes to track your progress.

Book 3: 181 Best English Collocations, Idioms, and Phrasal Verbs– Be able to use these common expressions naturally and surprise your friends, colleagues, and clients.

Get ready to be better prepared to accomplish your personal and career goals with stronger word power.

Upgrade Your English Vocabulary Skills is your go-to source to steadily and persistently make your words truly express what you mean.

Don’t delay. Start now!

Good luck,

Professor Winn

website: englishlanguagetestprep.com

About the Author

PROFESSOR WINN IS AN experienced English professor for more than 12 years.

He is CELTA certified to teach English.

He has helped students just like you achieve their career goals via strong English skills.

Now let me help you strengthen your English skills now - Register for a 2-hour English class with me today!

Book 1: Top 75 Misused English Word Pairs

PREFACE

Accept or except? Complement or compliment? Principal or principle"?

Don’t misuse any of these words while writing letters, memos, or reports for the boss. These words are similar in sound, spelling, or meaning.

Your confusion stops today!

As an experienced English professor of more than 10 years, I know students have doubts about these tough, but essential small points of the language.

That is why I wrote Top 75 Misused English Word Pairs.

Study these commonly confused words with definitions, example sentences, and practice exercises that should help you not only understand these words but use them correctly.

Use Top 75 Misused English Word Pairs to improve your English now.

Take the book to the office or class.

When you have a doubt, look up the term and then use it correctly the first time!

Good luck,

Professor Winn

If you need to strengthen your English, reserve your class today with me – Professor Winn!

ABBREVIATIONS

(adj.) – adjective

(adv.) – adverb

(n.) – noun

(prep.) – preposition

(v.) – verb

WORD PAIRS: A to N

1.  ACCEPT – (v.) - to agree to receive or do Ex: The store only accepts cash for purchases.

EXCEPT – (prep.) – not including Ex: You can leave work early except on Mondays.

2.  AESTHETIC – (adj.) - relating to an appealing or unappealing visual look or atmosphere. Ex: The aesthetics of Greek temples are exemplary of ancient architecture.

ASCETIC – (adj.) – used to talk about the avoidance of pleasure due to self-discipline. Ex: Many religions support ascetic practices in both eating and grooming.

3.  ADVERSE – (adj.) – unfavorable, harmful Ex: The sandwich shop faced adverse market competition and failed.

AVERSE – (adj.) – strongly disliking or oppose Ex: The CEO remained averse to selling enough stock to finance the project.

4.  ADVICE – (n.) – recommendations of what to do Ex: Lana rejected her boss’ advice to study an MBA.

ADVISE – (v.) – to recommend something Ex: Lana´s boss advised her to study an MBA.

5.  AFFECT – (v.) – to cause a change or product effect on Ex: The higher taxes affected the business’ ability to compete in the market.

EFFECT – (n.) – a result, bring about a result. Ex: The effect of alcoholism on work experience is evident.

6.  AIL – (v.) - to be ill, to cause pain Ex: The doctor prescribed a vacation for the stress that ails Charlie.

ALE – (n.) – malt beverage more bitter than beer Ex: Burt loves to drink ale for breakfast.

7.  AISLE – (n.) – a passage between rows in a store Ex: The old lady slipped on ice in the soda aisle in the store.

ISLE – (n.) – an island Ex: Bermuda is an isle in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

8.  ALLUDE – (v.) – to reference indirectly Ex: The investigation alluded to more crimes at Grimes Bank.

ELUDE – (v.) – to avoid capture Ex: The former CEO of Winthrop Holding fled to Belize to elude authorities.

9.  ALLUSION – (n.) – an indirect reference Ex: The defense lawyer’s allusion to a surprise witness scared the prosecutor.

ILLUSION – (n.) – a false reality Ex: The CFO told his staff it was an illusion for Winthrop Holdings to become profitable again.

10.  ALL READY – (adj.) – prepared Ex: The Marketing Team was all ready for the kickoff campaign.

ALREADY – (adv.) – by this time Ex: The CEO had already left the meeting before the vote on his removal.

11.  ALL TOGETHER – (adv.) – all at once Ex: The IT Department all together resigned over the lack of overtime pay.

ALTOGETHER – (adv.) – completely Ex: Ramses Medical Supplies withdrew from the medical instruments market altogether after another lawsuit was filed.

12.  ALONG – (prep.) – moving or extending horizontally on Ex: The search party walked along the river bank, but could not find the missing secretary.

A LONG – referring to something of great length Ex: That is a long distance from the headquarters in Paris.

13.  ALOUD – (adv.) – be clearly heard Ex: The union boss spoke aloud in front of the workers to keep their attention.

ALLOWED – (v.) – permitted Ex: The firm has never allowed spouses to attend the annual employee meeting in Las Vegas.

14.  ALTAR – (n.) – a raised place for sacrifices or gifts in some

Ex: The Maya practices human sacrifices at the altar.

ALTER – (v.) – The Human Resources manager altered payday to only once a month.

15.  AMORAL – (adj.) – having no concern for right and wrong

Ex: Another amoral Wall Street baron was arrested for stock fraud last night.

IMMORAL – (adj.) – morally wrong Ex: The company’s policy of firing older workers for cheaper younger ones is immoral.

16.  APPRAISE – (v.) – to assess Ex: The consultant appraised the value of the firm at over $10 million.

APPRISE – (v.) – to inform (someone) Ex: The defense lawyer apprised the judge of newly discovered evidence.

17.  ASSENT – (n.) – agreement Ex: The Luz Oil CEO never granted assent to split the stock.

ASCENT– (n.) – rising or climbing up Ex: The ascent of Luz Oil stock this afternoon even surprised its CFO.

18.  AURAL – (adj.) – related to ears or hearing Ex: Ramedi received a perfect 5.0 score on his aural French exam.

ORAL – (adj.) – spoken Ex: Sue received a 3.5 score on her oral Japanese exam.

19.  BALMY – (adj.) – pleasantly warm Ex: The balmy breezes of Tahiti greeted the Board of Directors of Luz Oil at their financial retreat.

BARMY– (adj.) – foolish, crazy Ex. The accountant’s barmy idea to accrue savings in the next quarter got him fired.

20.  BARE – (v.) – to remove the covering from something Ex: The arrested CFO bared his soul to the judge for her crimes.

BEAR – (v.) – to put up with Ex: The firm cannot bear to lose more market share to its biggest rival.

21.  BERTH – (n.)