The more words you know, the better you can think, read, communicate, and understand others. Your knowledge of words goes hand in hand with success in school, in business, and in social situations. A broad vocabulary is power. WORDS is intended to help you increase your word power and, hopefully, develop a love for words. OverviewThe textbook is divided into six units of study.* Unit 1, Introduction to Words, Lesson 1, discusses dictionary usage. * Unit 2, Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots, Lessons 2-10, discusses the meanings of common prefixes, suffixes, and roots and their use in producing a variety of words. * Unit 3, Spelling Guidelines, Lessons 11-13, presents guidelines for adding prefixes and suffixes to words and for spelling troublesome words. * Unit 4, Word Confusions, Lessons 14-16, discusses homonyms and other words that are frequently misused. * Unit 5, Vocabulary Expansion, Lessons 17-22, presents vocabulary words related to business, computer technology, law, medicine, and government and includes new and emerging words* Unit 6, Extra Word Power, Lessons 23-25, presents additional nouns, verbs, and adjectives that are worth knowing. Textbook Features* Self-Check Exercises. Each lesson contains self-check exercises that allow students to determine their comprehension of the material presented in the lesson. * Key to Self-Check Exercises. A key to the Self-Check exercises is included in the text, which enables students to have immediate feedback.* Keyboarding/Shorthand Activities. Each lesson contains a keyboarding or shorthand activity. Students may elect to keyboard material or write material in shorthand and transcribe their notes-particularly important to court reporting students.* Unit Reviews. Each unit contains a self-checked review, which allows students to test their mastery of the unit.