Key Features

An Intensive Words-in-Context Approach. Studies show that students learn words best by seeing them repeatedly in different contexts, not through rote memorization. The books present each word in at least six different contexts. Every encounter increases the chance that a word will become part of a student's permanent word bank.

Abundant Practice. In addition to the extensive practice in each chapter, there are multiple unit review activities for all words in the book. Moreover, vocabulary words are deliberately repeated in future chapters, allowing for even more reinforcement. And there are added tests in the downloadable Test Bank and in the Learning Center. All this practice means that students learn in the best possible way: by working closely and repeatedly with each word.  

Digital Options. This textbook is bundled with Vocabulary Plus, a powerful online vocabulary-building program that brings ALL the content of our famously clear, user friendly, Vocabulary Series directly to your tablet, smartphone, or computer. See details in the Vocabulary Plus tab below. 

Appealing Content. Dull practice materials work against learning. The lively content and clear and friendly style of the books make learning easier for students.

Emphasis on Key Words. In creating the Vocabulary Series, our editors combined teaching experience with a number of word frequency lists to determine the best words for each book. The result is a core of essential words, sequenced in order of difficulty, that are most helpful for students to know.

Common Core Aligned. TP’s Vocabulary Series is a comprehensive, research-based approach to vocabulary instruction aligned with the Common Core Standards for Vocabulary in Grades 6-12. Each book in the series presents vocabulary words in multiple contexts, giving students ample practice in determining “the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text.” In addition, the words-in-context approach requires students to actively figure out definitions though analysis using explicit or inferred meaning—a benchmark of the Common Core.* Looking for a Common Core aligned program to improve students’ vocabulary for success in school and beyond? With TP's Vocabulary Series, you've got it. *Common Core Standards RL.6.4, 7.4, 8.4, 9-10.4, 11-12.4

Affordability. Full version vocabulary books teach 300 key words/word parts and are priced at $12.90 each. Short Versions teach 200 words and cost $10.90 each. Bundles of long version books + Vocabulary Plus are value-priced at just $17.90; bundles of short version books + Vocabulary Plus are value-priced at just $15.90.

Outstanding Supplements. Supplements include a Vocabulary Placement Test, an Instructor's Edition, a combined Instructor's Manual and Test Bank, and online exercises that teach as well as test.

Word List

abrasive
adept
admonish
ambiguous
analogy
annihilate
antithesis
attrition
atrophy
auspicious
austere
berate
bolster
circumvent
clandestine
cohesive
collaborate
complement
connoisseur
conspiracy
contingency
contrite
criterion
culmination
decorum
deplore
depreciate
deprivation
deride
derogatory
despondent
detriment
dexterous
discreet
discretion
disparity
dissident
distraught
docile
egocentric
emanate
embellish
emulate
encompass
entrepreneur
equivocate
eradicate
esoteric
espouse
estrange
euphoric
exacerbate
exhilaration
exhort
exonerate
exorbitant
expedite
extenuating
extricate
fabricate
facetious
facilitate
facsimile
fastidious
flamboyant
flout
foible
forestall
fortuitous
fraudulent
fritter
germane
gregarious
grievous
grotesque
heinous
hierarchy
holistic
homogeneous
impeccable
impending
imperative
impetuous
implement
impromptu
inadvertent
inane
incapacitate
incongruous
indigenous
indiscriminate
infallible
inference
innocuous
innuendo
inquisitive
insidious
insinuate
instigate
interrogate
intuition
inundate
juxtapose
lethargy
liability
liaison
lucid
macabre
magnanimous
masochist
maudlin
mesmerize
metamorphosis
meticulous
misconstrue
mitigate
nebulous
notorious
objective
oblivious
obsequious
obtrusive
omnipotent
opportune
optimum
orthodox
ostentatious
panacea
paramount
perfunctory
permeate
placebo
plight
predisposed
presumptuous
proficient
prognosis
prolific
propensity
provocative
quandary
rancor
rebuke
recrimination
redeem
regress
reinstate
rejuvenate
relegate
relinquish
replete
reprehensible
repugnant
resilient
reticent
retribution
retrospect
robust
rudimentary
sanction
scoff
scrupulous
sedentary
sensory
sham
solace
solicitous
sordid
sporadic
squelch
standardize
staunch
stint
stringent
subordinate
subsidize
subversive
superficially
superfluous
symmetrical
synchronize
tenet
tenuous
terse
transgress
travesty
tumult
turbulent
ubiquitous
unprecedented
utilitarian
validate
vehement
venerate
verbose
vicarious
vindicate
vociferous
zealot
zenith

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Key Features of Vocabulary Plus
 

Independent Study (VPi):    A user-friendly, adaptive mode of Vocabulary Plus that individually assesses students and manages assignments. Suitable for classes and/or individual students, VPi dynamically adjusts difficulty to keep students challenged and motivated. And it rewards them too! Plus educators can view students' progress with a simple click. Learn more about VPihere. 

Integrated eBooks: A subscription to Vocabulary Plusincludes eBooks of all six texts in the TP Vocabulary Series. If you prefer the layout of a book and want to refer to content of a specific page, you can do so with a click. With Vocabulary Plus, the entire Vocabulary Series is at your fingertips!

Expanded Chapter Exercisesfor the six books in our Vocabulary Series. Depending on the titles, this includes anywhere from 6–8 interactive, instructive activities! Each includes item-specific feedback that helps students learn their new words.

Word Parts Chapters that teach prefixes, suffixes, and word roots. Students who learn these word parts will be better equipped to decipher the meanings of thousands of other words in which they appear.

Unit Reviews including crossword puzzles, analogies, and synonym and antonym activities adapted from the printed books.

Sentence Writing Activities, all new for Vocabulary Plus, allow students to compose sentences online to show their understanding of newly-learned words. Instructors can easily review and score these sentences online.

Online Tests: Two online tests, unique to the web and not found in our texts, are available for each chapter in Vocabulary Plus. With these tests, Vocabulary Plus actually offers more content than our books!

Enhanced Items: Items in Vocabulary Plus take advantage of new, upgraded technical capabilities. Sentence Check 2 and Final Check, for example, now offer more challenging answer choices. In addition, Vocabulary in Context items now provide students with two context sentences to help them infer each word’s meaning at the start of the chapter. 

Review Words: Words taught in earlier chapters are reinforced later as Vocabulary Review words. These words include definitions to refresh students’ memories and help them retain the words they learned in previous chapters. In addition, SAT and GRE high-frequency words are given extra attention—an added real-world connection!

Audio and Visual Support:Each vocabulary word in Vocabulary Plus includes a pronunciation guide AND an audio link of the word being spoken. Click a word, and Vocabulary Plus will pronounce it for you. In addition, pictures are used to introduce many words. This visual context helps students better understand and remember vocabulary words. See for yourself!

Intuitive Controls: People who use our Learning Center remark about how user-friendly it is.Vocabulary Plus is just as simple to use. Try it today!

Detailed Score Reports:Teachers using Vocabulary Pluswill be able to view precise details about student progress. Individual and group results are available and easily exported. In addition, you’ll be able to see the actual items students complete, the correct answers for each item (with explanations), and the answer choices students submitted. This useful data will allow you to focus class time on the specific skills that are challenging to your students.

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New Features include:

• Hundreds of new items
• Photos added to chapter readings
• Updated digital content
• Contemporary design
• Broader, universal appeal for a wide range of readers
• Resequenced chapter and test items

Common Core State Standards Fulfilled by TP's Vocabulary Series

Looking for a Common Core-aligned program to improve students' vocabulary for success in school and beyond? With TP's Vocabulary Series, you've got it.

TP's Vocabulary Series is a comprehensive, research-based approach to vocabulary instruction aligned with the Common Core Standards for Vocabulary in Grades 4–12. Each book in the series presents vocabulary words in multiple contexts, giving students ample practice in determining "the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text." In addition, the words-in-context approach requires students to actively figure out definitions though analysis using explicit or inferred meaning—a benchmark of the Common Core. (For a complete listing of the CCSS, please visit www.corestandards.org.

The TP Vocabulary Series fulfills the following Common Core State Standards:

College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards: R.4 and L.4–6

Grade-Level Standards: RF.4.3, 5.3

RL.4.4, 5.4, 6.4, 7.4, 8.4, 9–10.4, 11–12.4

RI.4.4, 5.4, 6.4, 7.4, 8.4, 9–10.4, 11–12.4

L.4.4–6, 5.4–6, 6.4–6, 7.4–6, 8.4–6, 9–10.4–6, 11–12.4–6

For more than two decades, the TP Vocabulary Series has helped millions of students learn the words they need for success in the classroom—and beyond. You be the judge of whether our effective, affordable series can work for your students, too.

Supplementary Materials

Advancing Vocabulary Skills, Short Version, 5/e includes the following supplements:

•  An Instructor’s Edition. This full-length text is identical to the student edition except that it contains answers to all the book's practice and test items. 

•  A combined Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank. This valuable supplement includes a model syllabus and suggestions for teaching with the text. It also contains: pretests and posttests for the entire book and each unit in the book, an extra mastery test for each chapter, and an extra unit test for each unit. Answers to all the book's activities and all the supplemental tests are included as well.

• The Learning Center. A powerful web-based resource, the Learning Center features PowerPoint files and an electronic (PDF) edition of the Instructor's Manual and Test Bank to accompany this book.  Along with these free materials, the Learning Center also hosts Vocabulary Plus, a comprehensive subscription-based word-building program that brings all the content of our vocabulary texts to students' digital devices. Learn more here.

Print supplements can be obtained quickly by calling Townsend Press toll-free at (800) 772-6410, by sending a fax on school letterhead to 1-800-225-8894, or by e-mailing Customer Service at cs@townsendpress.com.