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IN THE SAME SERIES Editor: Richard Hudson
Patricia Ashby Speech Sounds Edward Carney English Spelling Jonathan Culpeper History of English Nigel Fabb Sentence Structure John Haynes Style Richard Hudson Word Meaning Richard Hudson English Grammar Jean Stilwell Peccei Child Language Raphael Salkie Text and Discourse Analysis R. L. Trask Language Change Peter Trudgill Dialects
VOCABULARY
Laurie Bauer
London and New York
First published 1998 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2001. © 1998 Laurie Bauer All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Bauer, Laurie, 1949– Vocabulary / Laurie Bauer. p. cm – (Language workbooks) ISBN 0–415–16398–6 (pbk.) 1. Vocabulary–Problems, exercises, etc. I. Title. II. Series. PE1449.B348 1998 428.1–dc21 97-39921 CIP ISBN 0–415–16398–6 ISBN 0-203-02605-5 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-17367-8 (Glassbook Format)
For Keith and Ingrid
CONTENTS
Using this book Acknowledgements 1 The magic of words 2 Vocabulary statistics 3 Borrowing 4 New words from English 1: compounds 5 New words from English 2: derivatives 6 Meaning relationships 7 Formal relationships 8 Stylish words 9 Technical words 10 Where words come from: etymology 11 Words that change their meanings
viii x 1 7 14 19 25 30 36 41 46 50 56 62 69 71 87
12 Dictionaries 13 Where next? Answers to exercises Index
VII
USING
IN THE SAME SERIES Editor: Richard Hudson
Patricia Ashby Speech Sounds Edward Carney English Spelling Jonathan Culpeper History of English Nigel Fabb Sentence Structure John Haynes Style Richard Hudson Word Meaning Richard Hudson English Grammar Jean Stilwell Peccei Child Language Raphael Salkie Text and Discourse Analysis R. L. Trask Language Change Peter Trudgill Dialects
VOCABULARY
Laurie Bauer
London and New York
First published 1998 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2001. © 1998 Laurie Bauer All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Bauer, Laurie, 1949– Vocabulary / Laurie Bauer. p. cm – (Language workbooks) ISBN 0–415–16398–6 (pbk.) 1. Vocabulary–Problems, exercises, etc. I. Title. II. Series. PE1449.B348 1998 428.1–dc21 97-39921 CIP ISBN 0–415–16398–6 ISBN 0-203-02605-5 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-17367-8 (Glassbook Format)
For Keith and Ingrid
CONTENTS
Using this book Acknowledgements 1 The magic of words 2 Vocabulary statistics 3 Borrowing 4 New words from English 1: compounds 5 New words from English 2: derivatives 6 Meaning relationships 7 Formal relationships 8 Stylish words 9 Technical words 10 Where words come from: etymology 11 Words that change their meanings
viii x 1 7 14 19 25 30 36 41 46 50 56 62 69 71 87
12 Dictionaries 13 Where next? Answers to exercises Index
VII
USING