This text stresses the need for students to incorporate new words into their personal vocabulary to enhance their lives and academic careers. This learning objective is achieved through practice; the text utilizes ample fill-in-the-blank, matching, and multiple-choice exercises to teach definitions, pronounciation, and context clues. An entire section of the text deals with strategies for learning new words and focuses on discipline-specific words in medicine, business, law enforcement, psychology, and computer science.