Get Wise! Mastering Vocabulary Skills: Entertaining instruction and cool activities for students who want to Get Wise!; Includes new pronunciation guide

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Having trouble with those big words everyone else seems to know? Getting ready for standardized tests? Then you'd better Get Wise! -- and fast! I'm Chi, your personal tour guide, here to help you expand your vocabulary.
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Having trouble with those big words everyone else seems to know? Getting ready for standardized tests? Then you'd better Get Wise! -- and fast! I'm Chi, your personal tour guide, here to help you expand your vocabulary.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780768913422
  • Publisher: Peterson's
  • Publication date: 7/28/2003
  • Series: Get Wise! Series
  • Edition description: Second Edition
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 209
  • Sales rank: 941,606
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.50 (d)

Table of Contents

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
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