TEXT: How Could Anything That Feels So Bad Be So Good? 1
ETYMOLOGY (vict/ vinc) 11
SUPPLEMENTARY READING: The Chinese Family: The Ideal 12
PRACTICAL WRITING (Insurance) 16
RIDDLES PUZZLES 18
TEXT: Why We Fall in Love 19
ETYMOLOGY (gen) 31
SUPPLEMENTARY READING: Body Envy 33
PRACTICAL WRITING (Writing Business Memos) 40
RIDDLES EPIGRAMS 42
TEXT: The Sad Young Men 43
ETYMOLOGY (part/ pater) 59
SUPPLEMENTARY READING: Euphemism 61
PRACTICAL WRITING (Writing an Essay) 67
RIDDLES PUZZLES 72
TEXT: I Have a Dream 73
ETYMOLOGY (mob/ mot) 84
SUPPLEMENTARY READING: Inaugural Address 86
PRACTICAL WRITING (Writing a Research Paper) 92
RIDDLES EPIGRAMS 94
TEXT: Here is New York 95
ETYMOLOGY (press) 110
SUPPLEMENTARY READING: The Big House 111
PRACTICAL WRITING (writing a Feasibility Report) 118
RIDDLES PUZZLES 121
TEXT: The Age of Robots 122
ETYMOLOGY (vers/ vert) 134
SUPPLEMENTARY READING: Creepy Crawly Spies 135
PRACTICAL WRITING (Writing Argumentative Essays) 140
RIDDLES EPIGRAMS 142
TEXT: Churchill and Roosevelt 143
ETYMOLOGY (fus) 154
SUPPLEMENTARY READING: Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts 156
PRACTICAL WRITING (Writing Sales Contracts) 162
RIDDLES PUZZLES 165
TEXT: The Libido for the Ugly 166
ETYMOLOGY (duct) 179
SUPPLEMENTARY READING: At the Tailor s 180
PRACTICAL WRITING (Documentation) 185
RIDDLES EPIGRAMS 189
TEXT: Vindication of the Rights of Women 190
ETYMOLOGY (pend/ pens) 203
SUPPLEMENTARY READING: A Defense of Literary Ladies 205
PRACTICAL WRITING (Thank-you Letters Follow-up Letters) 211
RIDDLES PUZZLES 213
TEXT: Intellectuals on the Right 214
ETYMOLOGY (fer) 228
SUPPLEMENTARY READING: The Two Cultures 230
PRACTICAL WRITING (Writing Classified Advertisements) 236
RIDDLES EPIGRAMS 238
CLOSSARY 240