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To attain peak efficiency in reading, you ought to work through all the words and phrases regularly employed in your own field. Chemists, lawyers, engineers and physicians do this as a part of their training. Why should you not be as thorough in your word habits as they are in theirs?

Do not expect brilliant results here overnight. But if your reading does not improve after three or four months of word drill, this will almost certainly indicate that you suffer from other serious handicaps.

A Word List to Master

Here follows a list of words taken, with permission, from a famous survey made by Professor E. L. Thorndike, of Teachers’ College, Columbia University. For school use he prepared a list of the 10,000 words which appear most often in books and newspapers ordinarily read. I must assume that nearly all adults are familiar with the most common words among these. But probably the less common will offer a little difficulty at least to some who wish to improve their reading habits.

When you have learned all their important meanings you will have the basis of a non-technical working vocabulary. To perfect your business reading, you must next build up your own special vocabulary. As you learn new words here, write them down.

Be sure to avoid very rare words, select the important terms only, and be sure to learn all the important meanings of each.

Abash, Alcove, Arrant, Barrow
Abbot, Alder, Arrogant, Barter
Abject, Allay, Arsenal, Baseness
Abridge, Allege, Artisan, Bask
Bin, Burgess, Chaos, Compile
Binder, Burnish, Chargeable, Complement
Bladder, Bushing, Charger, Completion
Blanch, Butt, Chasm, Compliance
Craftsman, Default, Discomfit, Eke
Crag, Defective, Discord, Elapse
Cram, Defendant, Discount, Ell
Cramp, Defer, Discreet, Embark
Crane, Deficiency, Disk, Embassy
Crank, Define, Dismount, Embattled
Crate, Deform, Dispatch, Ember
Evince, Foliage, Geyser, Harbinger
Executor, Forbade, Girt, Hardihood
Exempt, Forbearance, Girth, Harmonious
Expedient, Forfeiture, Goad, Haycock
Expend, Formation, Goblet, Hazard
Expressive, Formidable, Gong, Haze
Extol, Fornication, Goodman, Heather
Extremity, Forsworn, Gourd, Hedgehog
Exult, Fortitude, Gradation, Hedgerow
Fabric, Fount, Grail, Heinous
Hysterical, Infidel, Jerkin, Lens
Idolatry, Infuse, Jig, Leper
Ignoble, Ingenious, Jingle, Lever
Imbibe, Inglorious, Jockey, Levy
Immeasurable, Ingredient, Jocund, Lewd
Imminent, Iniquity, Jog, Liable
Pestilence, Portable, Progeny, Ravenous
Petrify, Portal, Prologue, Ravine
Pew, Portentous, Promenade, Ravish
Reflexive, Ringlet, Scorner, Shorn
Reformation, Rinse, Scorpion, Shortage
Regent, Riotous, Scrim, Shred
Regime, Risen, Scroll, Shrivel
Reiterate, Rivet, Scruple, Shrug
Relapse, Rivulet, Scullion, Shutter
Relax, Roaster, Scum, Shuttle
Relay, Robust, Scurry, Sickle
Reliance, Rocker, Scythe, Sieve
Relinquish, Rocket, Sect, Sill
Rely, Roe, Sedate, Simmer
Sniff, Stile, Sware, Tinder
Snip, Stirrup, Swarthy, Tinge
Spout, Suite, Tempestuous, Treble
Upland, Vesture, Weasel, Writhe
Usage, Via, Weaver, Wroth
Usurp, Vial, Weld, Yew
Usury, Vicar, Welt, Yond
Utility, Victual, Wench, Yore
Uttermost, Viewless, Wend, Zephyr
Vacillate, Vigilance, Whelp, Zest
Vail, Vigorous, Whim, Zoological
Valve, Villa, Whisk

Exercise

Write down, without consulting the dictionary, all the distinct shades of meaning you can think of for the word “heavy.” Now write a sentence or phrase in which “heavy” occurs, each time with a distinct meaning.

After you have finished, turn to some dictionary (not a small one!) and see how many meanings you have missed. Finally see in the dictionary how many meanings “heavy” has which are strange to you. Ignore the obsolete meanings of course.

Repeat the pattern of this exercise with each of the following words:
Heel out initiate of
discharge (the verb) over
contract (the verb) wild
mill will
mince close
strain (the verb) seed
straight rule

Note. – If you know as many as one-half of the meanings of these words, you have an unusually good grasp of them. If you do not know them well enough to write them down on order but do recognize them when you see them in print, then you have a fair working grasp.

Carry out these word drills and you will soon have a very good grasp of many words.

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The tiniest player in this category is Apple’s iPod Shuffle. It’s very well built with an all aluminium outer body that is available in a number of tasteful colours. Some may find electric pink and sea blue gaudy, but we like it. These colours are very understandable for a product mainly aimed at college kids and those looking for something really funky looking. To save on space the Shuffle doesn’t even have a display. What it does have are very clear and easy-to-use controls. The four buttons for volume up / down and next / previous track are shaped to form a circle with the large play / pause button in the centre of it. The layout of these buttons is perfect and are very large and intuitive. Suiting its ultra-compact status, the Shuffle comes with a belt clip that has a good spring that grips well.

Creative’s Zen Stone Plus is the next of the really tiny players. It’s about the same footprint as the Shuffle, but a little thicker and marginally longer. Creative goes one step further and provides the Zen Stone Plus with a single-colour OLED display. This is a boon for those storing extra music as you can tell what exactly is playing, or which track is next without actually having to listen in. This PMP is very solidly built and has a loudspeaker as well. Creative has got the controls right and although they aren’t as good, in terms of feedback, as Apple’s controls, they are very well laid out and very intuitive to use. The ergonomics are top class. Unlike the Shuffle, the Zen Stone Plus uses an all-plastic body, but finished in matte texture tones. The quality of plastics used seems very good and in testament to this, the Zen Stone Plus survived (unscathed) a rather nasty drop that occurred during a photo shoot session, where it fell while running from a height of eight feet.

Philips’ GoGear SA2825 was one of the more novel designs that we’ve seen. The body is finished in burnished chrome that looks like a metallic, mirror finish, similar to the finish LG uses on some of its cell phones. It’s got a small OLED display, which is covered by a transparent plastic shell. Initially, this shell seemed to fit the player rather loosely and we were wondering if it was removable. We figured out that the shell was a large clickable button with four functions, similar to 4-way joypad keys on cell phones. The screen is reasonably clear, more so than the display on the Zen Stone Plus, and the square-shaped player with slightly rounded edges looks really neat.

The other two MP3 Players in this category are from Mitashi. The cheaper of the two is the KNM-2GB that has a really neat looking red-backlit, touch-sensitive array of buttons on the front. It’s got a decent LCD display that measures two inches diagonally. The player itself is built pretty well and looks decent with an entire black body. The front is a smooth piano finish, while the rear makes do with a slightly more rugged looking matte finish. Using this player can be a pain because the indicated controls for the buttons are not very intuitive and we found that we could not perform some very common tasks without referring to the manual. For example, the middle button will play a highlighted song, but will not pause the track.

The pause button is located towards the side of the device. Furthermore, if you’ve played a track, and then navigate to the track listing, and then press the “Pause” button, you are asked whether you want to delete the song from the track list, instead of pausing the the song that’s playing like you’d expect. Such goof-ups are unforgivable, but should be rectifiable via firmware upgrades, which we hope will happen very soon.

The other PMP from Mitashi is the MWI-4GA, which boasts of a 2.4-inch LCD display – the largest display from among the PMPs in our test. It’s a little thick for our tastes, but not enough to call it bulky. The entire body is chromed and this is relieved only by the black-coloured eyelet provided on the top, presumably to strap it to your belt or wrist. There’s a loudspeaker vent on the rear. Its buttons are positioned to the right side which is inconvenient.

Not only is feedback absent, but the buttons are so recessed into the player that they are actually hard to press — we found ourselves using our nails solely for the purpose of skipping a track, or pausing playback or other common tasks. After a while, your nails begin to hurt from the pressure of using the keys – unforgivable design goof-ups! While still on design flaws, how about the absence of a 3.5-mm stereo jack? The MWI-4GA uses a rare 2.5-mm jack that we’re used to seeing in budget CDMA handsets and this, perhaps, is a more unforgivable blunder than the previous one.

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