Contents: Vocabulary for Writing in the Real World The Private Journals of Denise Chavez . . 1 Trahant Investigates Nuclear Transport. . 2 Clarke Follows the Equator . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Norfolk Tells Tales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Behind the Science Feature . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Mitchiner, Ross and Kahn Asks “What Will It Do To You?” 6 Literature Vocabulary Blue Highways: A Journey into America . . 7 “My FurthestBack Person—‘The African’”. . 8 The Solace of Open Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Tortuga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 A Book of Bees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 “A Plague on Tennis” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Learning from Context Definition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Contrast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Cause and Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Word Roots and Compounds Word Roots and Base Words . . . . . . . . . 18 Word Roots I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Word Roots II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Word Roots III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Compound Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Prefixes Prefixes Meaning “Not” . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Prefixes That Tell When. . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Prefixes That Tell Where . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Prefixes Meaning “For” or “Against” . . . 26