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Unit 1: Places.

Word List.

1-1. A Large City, a Dock, and More.

1-2. The Letters C and R Stand for Themselves.

1-3. Find the Three Words.

1-4. A Colorful Matching Column.

Unit 2: Beg, Borrow, and Steal.

Word List.

2-1. Start with a Capital.

2-2. Patriotism Is In!

2-3. Sliding Along.

2-4. No Need to Beg, Borrow, or Steal.

Unit 3: What’s That You Say?

Word List.

3-1. Relating Them.

3-2. Ego Man.

3-3. Who Is Theodore Geisel?

3-4. Three-Letter Adjectives.

3-5. Units 1–3 Crossword Puzzle Review.

Review Test Units 1–3.

Unit 4: Clean Your Room!

Word List.

4-1. Find the Proverb.

4-2. There Once Was a Man . . . .

4-3. Look for Those Second Letters.

4-4. Two Words and Two Girls.

Unit 5: How We Act.

Word List.

5-1. Clumps of Letters.

5-2. Why Start with Something Crude?

5-3. What Is an Amazon?

5-4. Music to Your Ears.

Unit 6: Words from Mythology.

Word List.

6-1. A Monstrous Affair to Say the Least.

6-2. Headlines!

6-3. Five Will Get You Forty.

6-4. Start with Zeus.

Review Test Units 4–6.

Unit 7: The Big and Small of It All.

Word List.

7-1. Fifteen and Five.

7-2. Floating Like a Butterfly.

7-3. Spinning Around.

7-4. Change a Letter (or Two).

Unit 8: Tell It Like It Is.

Word List.

8-1. It’s What They Said.

8-2. You Only Hear Its First Letter.

8-3. O! Those Prefixes Ending with O!

8-4. Under the Sea.

Unit 9: The Sciences (Naturally!).

Word List.

9-1. Searching for Those Science Words.

9-2. Let’s Start with “No” for Some of These.

9-3. Finding the Three-Letter Words.

9-4. Figuring Out the Science Words.

Review Test Units 7–9.

Unit 10: Mathematically Inclined.

Word List.

10-1. Just Do the Math.

10-2. Overheard in Math Class.

10-3. What Is It Called?

10-4. Famous Names in Mathematics.

Unit 11: How We Move.

Word List.

11-1. Just Move It!

11-2. How Would You Move If . . .?

11-3. Newspaper Captions.

11-4. Don’t Be Staggering Through This Puzzle!

Unit 12: Write On!

Word List.

12-1. I’d Like to Read.

12-2. Legends Amongst Us.

12-3. Literary Crossword.

12-4. Really Researching.

Review Test Units 10–12.

Unit 13: Popular SAT Words.

Word List.

13-1. Let’s Go Fishing.

13-2. The Fourth-of-July Special.

13-3. To the Nth Degree.

13-4. By a Nose.

Unit 14: What We’d Like Said About Us.

Word List.

14-1. End with James Bond.

14-2. Don’t Tell This to Babe Ruth or Michael Jordan!

14-3. Illustrative Examples.

14-4. And Now for the One Noun Form.

Unit 15: To a Degree.

Word List.

15-1. Placing Them In.

15-2. Where Did the Word Number Go?

15-3. Triple the Number.

15-4. Hey! Some Letters Are Missing!

Review Test Units 13–15.

Unit 16: All Types of People.

Word List.

16-1. Who Said It?

16-2. All Sorts of People.

16-3. Politically Speaking.

16-4. Have You Seen the . . .?

Unit 17: An Interesting Combination of Words.

Word List.

17-1. Coming or Going There Late.

17-2. People Will Not Be Mad at Us This Time.

17-3. Who Said What?

17-4. All Fifteen.

Unit 18 All in the Family.

Word List.

18-1. It’s a Family Affair.

18-2. Double-Letter Words.

18-3. No Feuding Within the Family Here.

18-4. Headlines.

Review Test Units 16–18.

Unit 19: Skilled—Or Not So Skilled.

Word List.

19-1. Be an Exemplary Student.

19-2. Positive and Negative Words.

19-3. Which Does Not Belong—And Why?

19-4. Inventors and Inventions.

Unit 20: Here, There, and Everywhere.

Word List.

20-1. Your Mother Is What Kind of an Engineer?

20-2. Adverbs Galore!

20-3. Making Your Way Around Analogies.

20-4. How Simple!

Unit 21: Smart—Or Not So Smart.

Word List.

21-1. Do You Have the Smarts?

21-2. Do You Have the Skill?

21-3. Expanding Your Vocabulary.

21-4. World Capitals.

Review Test Units 19–21.

Unit 22: A Bit Different.

Word List.

22-1. A Traitor, a Criminal, and the Rest.

22-2. Finding the Countries.

22-3. People and What They Said.

22-4. Where Did the Word Maestro Come From?

Unit 23: How (or Not How) to Say It.

Word List.

23-1. It’s Not That Greek to You!

23-2. U-R That Clever!

23-3. This Is So Easy!

23-4. A Very Silly Poem.

Unit 24: Gone!

Word List.

24-1. Two at a Time.

24-2. Water, Water Everywhere.

24-3. “-Ury” Is In.

24-4. Count on It to Be One of the First.

Review Test Units 22–24.

Unit 25: Age.

Word List.

25-1. The Last Letters.

25-2. Starting Fresh.

25-3. One Hundred Years and Counting.

25-4. Ponce de Leon’s Search.

Unit 26: Who Wants to Be Called That?

Word List.

26-1. All Types of Behaviors and Moods.

26-2. Identifying the Person.

26-3. Obstinate Is the Way to Go Here.

26-4. Care to Do This Over Breakfast?

Unit 27: How Much—Or How Little.

Word List.

27-1. We Want No Dearth of Correct Answers Here!

27-2. What Have You Wrought?

27-3. Large or Small or Just Enough?

27-4. Sounds Like . . . .

Review Test Units 25–27.

Unit 28: Social Studies Class.

Word List.

28-1. Take One, Then Two, and Then #15 Does It Alone.

28-2. Let’s Call It a Tie—At Least in Points.

28-3. Words Within Words.

28-4. Do You Know Your U.S. Presidents?

Unit 29: Science Class.

Word List.

29-1. Making Sense Out of Science.

29-2. Science Words.

29-3. The Dictionary to the Rescue?

29-4. The Parade of Scientists.

Unit 30: All About the Senses.

Word List.

30-1. A Crossword for the Senses.

30-2. The Final Letters.

30-3. Just Add Some Sweeteners.

30-4. Sensing Your Capability.

Review Test Units 28–30.

List of Words by Unit.

Words Included in This Book.

Answer Key.