A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one’s vocabulary and the greater one’s awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one’s thinking. Knowledge of things and knowledge of the words for them grow together. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the thing.

Word Clues is a class dedicated to building student vocabulary through the study of Greek and Latin roots.

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The textbook for Word Clues is Word Clues the Vocabulary Builder, which was written by a former English teacher at Helena High named Amsel Greene.

Interesting and Useful Links

Just for fun

  • Click on the Visual Thesaurus for fun with words
  • It’s Hard to Eat Just One – no, not potato chips — a brief and crunchy defense ofentomaphagy!
  • Shakespeare Would Have Had a Blog!
  • Schott’s Vocab – a repository of unconsidered lexicographical trifles — some serious, others frivolous, some neologized, others newly newsworthy
  • Having trouble finding words for the suffix you are studying?  Click on One Lookfor help with all sorts of wordy things!  For roots, place an asterisk on either side of the word; for prefixes, place an asterisk after the word; and for a suffix, place the asterisk before the word.

Useful links for Word Study beyond the text

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