Advanced Vocabulary Words: Chasm to Concoct
Read this set aloud and something jumps out: cohort, commission, commodity, community, concoct. Five of the ten words begin with the same Latin prefix, and it is not a coincidence of the alphabet. It is a family. The prefix is com-, which becomes con- or co- depending on the sound that follows, and it means […]
Advanced Vocabulary Words: Assimilate to Charisma
This stretch of the alphabet is a genuinely mixed bag: two words about doing good, one about shortness, one about polishing, two concrete nouns that look almost identical and mean nothing alike, and one about personal magnetism. Mixed sets are harder than themed ones, and the way through them is to build small groups yourself […]
