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Its ok
I thought the book was definitely good at breaking down the words. I bought it to help me study for the GRE. But I found another book that is a lot cheaper and I have been using it more, so I would recommend the book "Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms," by Donald Borror, if you want to study for the GRE.

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Word Parts Dictionary, by Michael J. Sheehan, will be much appreciated by writers, linguists, and coiners of neologisms. Much of our complex language is made up of word chunks with specific meanings that combine with other fragments to form elegant-sounding compounds--"$10 words," as I once heard them called by someone with a preference for monosyllables. This dictionary defines all known suffixes, prefixes, combining forms, and bases; provides a reverse dictionary of meanings to locate that elusive particle; and groups some of the word parts into categories (animals, food, shapes, etc.). With no trouble at all, the user can formulate a new word for "obsession with pinching buttocks" (pygorrhexophilia), in case one is ever needed. A work of lexicoplastic brilliance. $39.95. McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0819-7(1042/C&RL News * December 2000) ... Read more

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This book features a variety of reproducible, child-created mini-books designed to help students gain mastery of language arts and math skills. Ideal for extension activities, learning centers, or homework. ... Read more

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Aims to help expand vocabulary and improve reading comprehension by modifying the reader's existing lexicon. The Power Japanese series presents a selection of guides to difficult or confusing aspects of the Japanese language. The student can find a quick reference to particles, a guide to the myriad levels of politeness, books of idioms, vocabulary builders, emotive expressions and turns of speech - all with natural examples. ... Read more

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Most Powerful Book in Power Japanese Series?
I think Instant Vocabulary Through Prefixes and Suffixes (Power Japanese) might be the most powerful book in the Power Japanese series. I highly recommend it to language learners.

WHAT IS IN IT?
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The book contains fifty-two characters divided into 17 prefixes and 35 suffixes. In the entries the author explains the English equivalents for the character, talks about how it is used in practice, and then provides numerous examples of it in sentences.

For byou (Amazon won't let me put in the character) the author glosses it as "disease, illness." Then, he explains the range of its meanings. Importantly, he mentions that it overlaps with shou (not included in this book), but that shou has a more scientific ring. This is good stuff!

Five example sentences follow, and he ends with 4 examples of how a word is combined with byou to form a compound. The examples are great, and during my time in Japan I remember clearly when there was a big scandal involving onsen operators discriminating against people suffering from Hansen-byou (Hansen's disease). The first example sentence is about this word. It definitely proved useful.

SUMMARY
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Just as with English, mastering a relatively small number of prefixes and suffixes gives you incredible power to create words and intuit the meaning of words with which you are unfamiliar. I don't think it is the best in the series (that honor goes to Rubin's "Making Sense of Japanese"), but this is definitely worth purchasing.

See my Listmania List ("The Power Japanese Series") for more books in the series.

A Great Introduction to Japanese Affixes
This book covers 63 basic affixes that are commonly used in Japanese. Explanations and examples are plentiful and the book is well organized. If you learn the entries in this book you could literally double your vocabulary. The back of the book gives a good analogy: gItfs as though you only knew the word esimple,f and then one day acquired esimplify,f esimplification,f esimplicity,f esimplistic,f and esimpleton.fh I feel this book is a must have for any intermediate student of the Japanese Language.

Excellent reference book
This book provides information that is powerfully helpful in learning Japanese.A must reference book for anyone serious about learning Japanese. Very well organized with Kanji, Hiragana and Romaji.A veryhelpful tool ... Read more

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Focus on root words, prefixes, and suffixes in reading and writing.Challenging activities cover prefixes with negative meanings, prefixesdenoting numbers, root words, suffixes, and words with both prefixes andsuffixes. Five warm-ups per reproducible page. Includes answer keys andsuggestions for use.

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Useful book
The hardest thing with Russian is not the alphabet, nor even the grammar, which is complicated but regular. The hardest thing in my opinion is the vocabulary. It is hard to learn new Russian words and hard to build a decent vocabulary. This book really helps. It lists alphabetically all the most useful Russian roots and shows how the root occurs in a number of different words. Five to ten sentences varying in difficulty illustrate how the same root occurs in different words. With practice it is possible to begin to guess the meaning of unfamiliar words. Moreover by connecting new words to a common root, I found it easier to learn the new words. For those who have already reached a fairly good level of Russian this book is really useful. It takes a good deal of patience to work through the examples, but I think it is worth it as the study of roots may well be the key to a good understanding of Russian. Try to get hold of this book if you can.

Decent Text Book
This book was meant for the advanced student of Russian to better utilize Russian's rich vocabulary by becoming familiar with roots, prefixes, and suffixes.Using these parts of words makes it much easier to understand words you may not be familiar with.Reading in Russian becomes easier when you know roots, prefixes, and suffixes.I used this book in more than one Russian class in college and I recommend it.It does it's job.It's not fancy and the layout could use some improvement (of course, I have the July 2000 spiral-bound edition), but it does the job. ... Read more

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Arranged alphabetically by suffix (except in a few cases, like phagous and vorous, or latry and theism, where likeness brought two together), this innovative dictionary defines words ending with common suffixes and gives other words with the same suffix that have related connotations. ... Read more

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Word lovers rejoice!
This beautiful little library book is a great reference tool for anyone fascinated by the construction of words and rare words. It is a unique book you'll keep forever. ... Read more

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The teacher's guide includes a variety of games for students at variouslanguage acquisition levels. The games includes 100 cards, and studentsplay with the cards in small groups.