Vocabulary Energizers: Volume 2
Stories of Word Origins

Vocabulary Energizers is definitely a book with a younger crowd in mind – most likely to study for the SAT. I knew about 90% of the words already, but this is mitigated by the entertaining etymologies (histories of words.) Most of them come from Greek mythology, or have historical notes attached. Th......more

What a fun little book! Who knew the rich history behind so many common words? Most of these histories are new to me at least. I am afraid though that I am not the target audience for this book. I think that there was one word that I didn’t know, but I still enjoyed it. I also listened to it as an......more