Will help you increase your confidence and improve your command of the English language. Shows you how to: banish spelling problems forever; use the right word in the right situation; improve your vocabulary; become an expert on -isms, -ologies, and other combining forms; and dip into a treasure-trove of hard words. Suggests various strategies for tackling unknown words, both for comprehension and for using them correctly with confidence. Discusses wordbooks, and how best to use them; pitfalls of spelling; words that may be confused; foreign phrases; antonyms; the word elements from which many English words are constructed; and a lexicon of hard words.