what this book can do for you ?

  This book is designed to get you started building your vocabulary–effictively and at jet-propelled speed–by helping you regain the intellectual atmosphere,the keen,insatiable curiously,the “powerful urge to learn” of your childhood.
  The organization of the book is based on two simple principles:
  1)words are the verbal symbols of ideas
  2)the more ideas you are familiar with,the more words you know.
  So,chapter by chapter,we will start with some central idea–personality types,doctors,science,unusual occupations,liars,actions,speech habits,insults,compliments,etc–examine ten basic words that express various aspects of the ideas.Then,using each word as a springboard,we will explore any others which are related to it in meaning or derivation,so that it is not unlikely that a single chapter may discuss,teach,and test close to one hundred important words.
  Anyway,however,the approach will be from the idea.First there will be a “teaser preview” in which the ideas are briefly hinted at;then a “headline” in which each idea is examined somewhat more closely,next a clear,detailed paragraph or more will analyze the idea in all its ramifications.finally the word itself,which you will meet only after you are completely familiar with the idea.
  In the etymology(derivation of words)section,you will learn what Greek or Latin root gives the word its unique meaning and what other words contain the same,or related,roots,you will thus be continually working in realted fields,and there will never be any possibility of confusion from “too muchness”,despite the great number of words taken up and tested in each chapter.
  Successful people have superior vocabularies.People who are intellectually alive and successful in the professional or business worlds are accustomed to dealing with ideas.are constantly on the search for new ideas,build their lives and their careers on the ideas they have learned.And it is to readers whose goal is successful living(in the boardtest meaning of the word successful)that this book is addressed

[new word]
keen 敏锐
insult 侮辱
compliment 赞扬
ramification 后果
be accustomed to 习惯于做某事