This English vocabulary book is designed to help you learn words by assembling their parts, much like spinning cotton into thread and then weaving it into a fabric. It provides a compact introduction to English word components. All included words, including derivatives, are accompanied by phonetic symbols. The book clearly illustrates the meaning of each word part, making it easier to remember derivatives and related words. For example, the word "sympathy" is formed from "sym" (same) + "pathy" (feeling) = empathy, compassion. Therefore, words starting with "sym" or "syn" suggest a meaning related to "same." This helps you understand words like "symptom" (a sign of illness) – "When you catch a cold, everyone experiences the same symptoms like fever and cough" – and "symmetry" (the quality of being symmetrical) – "Images are the same distance (meter) from the central line." By using the appendix of word parts, you can easily memorize derivatives. "Sympathize" is formed by combining "sympathy" with the verb-making suffix "-ize," resulting in the meaning "to sympathize." "Symmetrical" ends with the adjective-making suffix "-ical," meaning "(of) symmetry." This book is filled with such "mechanisms" to aid in word learning. The book contains a total of 【3800 words】. The 【2300 words】 mentioned in the title are the most important words with high frequency in university entrance exams, and these words are marked with ★★ (high importance) and ★ (medium importance) in the headwords. Instead of memorizing all the words from the beginning, in the first round, focus on memorizing the ★★ most important words, including their spelling. In the second round, add the ★ words and review. For the other words, you should look them over in both the first and second rounds, but don't aim for complete memorization. Instead, aim to understand their meaning when they appear in English passages. You will be able to develop the ability to instantly guess the part of speech and meaning of unknown words in long passages. - Title: Tsumugu Eitango (Spinning English Vocabulary) - Authors: Hiroki Uchida, Sarah S. Haas - Publisher: Kawai Publishing (2006/7/5) - Paperback: 448 pages