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Title: The Century Vocabulary Builder

Author: Creever & Bachelor

Release Date: November 13, 2003 [EBook #10073]

Language: English

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THE CENTURY HANDBOOK SERIES

THE CENTURY HANDBOOK OF WRITING.
By Garland Greever and Easley S. Jones.

THE CENTURY VOCABULARY BUILDER.
By Garland Greever and Joseph M. Bachelor.

THE CENTURY DESK BOOK OF GOOD ENGLISH.
By Garland Greever and Joseph M. Bachelor.

A BUSINESS MAN'S DESK BOOK.
By Garland Greever and Joseph M. Bachelor.

THE FACTS AND BACKGROUNDS OF LITERATURE, English and American.
By George F. Reynolds, University of Colorado, and Garland Greever.

PARLIAMENTARY PRACTICE.
By General Henry M. Robert.

_Other Volumes To Be Arranged_

THE CENTURY VOCABULARY BUILDER.

By GARLAND GREEVER

and

JOSEPH M. BACHELOR

TO

DANA H. FERRIN

WHOM THIS BOOK OWES MORE
THAN A MERE DEDICATION CAN ACKNOWLEDGE

PREFACE

You should know at the outset what this book does _not_ attempt to
do. It does not, save to the extent that its own special purpose requires,
concern itself with the many and intricate problems of grammar, rhetoric,
spelling, punctuation, and the like; or clarify the thousands of
individual difficulties regarding correct usage. All these matters are
important. Concise treatment of them may be found in THE CENTURY HANDBOOK
OF WRITING and THE CENTURY DESK BOOK OF GOOD ENGLISH, both of which
manuals are issued by the present publishers. But this volume confines
itself to the one task of placing at your disposal the means of adding to
your stock of words, of increasing your vocabulary.

It does not assume that you are a scholar, or try to make you one. To be
sure, it recognizes the ends of scholarship as worthy. It levies at every
turn upon the facts which scholarship has accumulated. But it demands of
you no technica