Dedicated to meeting the academic needs of low-intermediate-level students, this book prepares students to take on the demands of college-level academic work by teaching them necessary vocabulary. As part of the 20-book Houghton Mifflin English for Academic Success series, College Vocabulary 1 helps students develop the ability to understand and use the vocabulary from the Academic Word List (AWL), which represents the 570 most common words used in academic textbooks. This book also helps students apply strategies for vocabulary learning, develop dictionary skills for vocabulary development, and analyze words for syllable and stress patterns. College Vocabulary 1-4 are specifically designed to support the Oral Communication, Reading, and Writing strands of the Houghton Mifflin English for Academic Success series. Academic content excerpted from Houghton Mifflin college and McDougal Littell high school textbooks familiarizes students with academic subjects across the curriculum and
