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The Century Vocabulary Builder, by Garland Greever and Joseph M. Bachelor (Gutenberg text)
A study in disguised intelligence tests (interview form) (Teachers college, Columbia university, 1927), by Donald Scott Snedden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Tests of literary vocabulary for teachers of English (Teachers college, Columbia university, 1926), by Laura Hall Vere Kennon (page images at HathiTrust)
A vocabulary information test (New York, 1928), by Angelina Louisa Weeks (page images at HathiTrust)
The social-ethical significance of vocabulary (Teachers college, Columbia university, 1926), by Gladys Clotilde Schwesinger (page images at HathiTrust)
English word lists; a study of their adaptability for instruction. (American council on education, 1940), by Charles C. Fries, Alice Aileen Traver, and Committee on modern languages (page images at HathiTrust)
The teacher's word book (Teachers College, Columbia University, 1921), by Edward L. Thorndike (page images at HathiTrust)
A basic vocabulary of elementary school children (The Macmillan Company, 1945), by Henry Daniel Rinsland (page images at HathiTrust)
The dimensions of children's meaning vocabularies in grades four through twelve. (University of California Press, 1954), by David H. Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
Retrieving the retarded reader, with special emphasis on remedial teaching of vocabulary. (Public school publishing company, 1940), by Jack W. Birch (page images at HathiTrust)
Determination of a spelling vocabulary based upon written correspondence (The University, 1921), by William Niclaus Andersen (page images at HathiTrust)
Reading and word meanings. (Ginn and company, 1927), by Edward W. Dolch (page images at HathiTrust)
Improving the spoken vocabulary of elementary school children ... (Philadelphia, 1928), by Israel Galter (page images at HathiTrust)
The teacher's handbook of technical vocabulary. (Public school publishing company, 1940), by Luella Cole (page images at HathiTrust)
Vocabulary building. (T. E. Smith & co., 1940), by John Marcellus Steadman (page images at HathiTrust)
German frequency word book. (The Macmillan company, 1928), by Bayard Quincy Morgan and Friedrich Wilhelm Kaeding (page images at HathiTrust)
Vocabulary: its measurement and growth (New York, 1939), by Irene Gansl (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
An analysis of age-progress curves as related to the mental growth curve. (New York, 1944), by Roy Miller Hamlin (page images at HathiTrust)
A study of the late Latin vocabulary and of the prepositions and demonstrative pronouns in the confessions of St. Augustine, by Clement Louis Hrdlicka. (The Catholic university of America, 1931), by Clement Louis Hrdlicka (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The social-ethical significance of vocabulary (New York : Teachers College, Columbia University, 1926., 1926), by Gladys Clotilde Schwesinger (page images at HathiTrust)
Vocabulary development and reading seatwork exercises for the elementary grades. ([Fort Wayne], 1929), by Indiana. Department of Public Instruction (page images at HathiTrust)
Étude sur la grammaire et le vocabulaire de Montaigne d'après les variantes des "Essais," (Imprimerie H. Morel, 1925), by Joseph Léon Coppin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Century vocabulary builder (The Century co., 1923), by Garland Greever and Joseph M. Bachelor (page images at HathiTrust)
A teacher's word book of the twenty thousand words found most frequently and widely in general reading for children and young people (Teachers college, Columbia university, 1931), by Edward L. Thorndike (page images at HathiTrust)
Literary and philological studies (University of California Press, 1919), by California. University. Department of Romanic Languages, Gilbert Chinard, François Auguste René Chauteaubriand, John Taggart Clark, S. Griswold Morley, François Auguste René Chauteaubriand, and Beatrice Quijada Cornish (page images at HathiTrust)
Vocabulary changes in mental deterioration; the relationship of vocabulary functioning as measured by a variety of word meaning and usage tests to clinically estimated degrees of mental deterioration in 'idiopathic' epilepsy (New York, 1939), by Harry Marcellus Capps (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The modern business speller : including pronunciation and meaning of more than 3,000 different words and rules of spelling preceded by an orthoepy, for use in business colleges, academies and high schools (Lyons & Carnahan, 1901), by D. D. Mayne (page images at HathiTrust)
Improving your vocabulary. (Whittlesey House, 1947), by Clarence Stratton (page images at HathiTrust)
A graded vocabulary for primary reading (Webster publishing company, 1936), by Clarence R. Stone (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Business speller : designed for use in business colleges, and junior and senior high schools (South-Western Publishing Company, 1925), by P. B. S. Peters (page images at HathiTrust)
Vocabulary studies (Colorado Springs, Colo., 1917), by Fred M. Gerlach (page images at HathiTrust)
Franklin's vocabulary (Doubleday, Doran & company, inc., 1928), by Lois Margaret MacLaurin (page images at HathiTrust)
A teacher's word book of the twenty thousand words found most frequently and widely in general reading for children and young people (Teachers college, Columbia university, 1932), by Edward L. Thorndike (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A reading vocabulary for the primary grades (Bureau of publications, Teachers college, Columbia university, 1926), by Arthur I. Gates (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The devil's dictionary (Mount Vernon, New York : Peter Pauper Press, [1958], 1958), by Ambrose Bierce, Joseph Low, and Peter Pauper Press (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Survey of the writing vocabularies of public school children in Connecticut (Govt. print. off., 1921), by Willard Fred Tidyman (page images at HathiTrust)
Des parlers des différentes classes sociales (P. Geuthner, 1909), by Raoul de La Grasserie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A vocabulary test and a monosyllabic essay on art ([O.E. Monnette], 1918), by Orra Eugene Monnette (page images at HathiTrust)
Sophomore English ([Bryan, Tex., 1927), by David Brooks Cofer, E. K. Spahr, P. G. Gunter, and Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
La langue du duc de Saint-Simon; le vocabulaire et les images (Berger-Levrault, 1920), by Pierre Adam (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Words : a programed course in vocabulary development (Science Research Associates, 1963), by Susan Meyer Markle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The dimensions of children's meaning vocabularies in grades four through twelve. (University of California Press, 1954), by David H. Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
Building your vocabulary (Prentice-Hall, 1949), by John G. Gilmartin (page images at HathiTrust)
The vocabulary of college students in classroom speeches (Bureau of Educational Research, Ohio State University, 1955), by John Wilson Black and Marian Ausherman (page images at HathiTrust)
Word study for improved reading. (New York, 1954), by A. Allen Robbins (page images at HathiTrust)
Appendix to lectures on English grammar : containing an additional number of incorrect phrases, or vulgarisms, and a selection of nearly four hundred words : which are frequently pronounced contrary to the best usage. (Printed by Lincoln & Edmands, 1828), by Joseph Hervey Hull (page images at HathiTrust)
Smith on the use of words and phrases : designed for the use of schools, colleges, writers and public speakers (Foote and Davies, 1902), by Peter Francisco Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
The primary language of poetry in the 1740's and 1840's (University of California Press, 1950), by Josephine Miles (page images at HathiTrust)
Materialy dli︠a︡ izdanii︠a︡ novago Akademicheskago slovari︠a︡. (Tip. Imp. akademīi nauk, 1858), by I︠A︡. K. Grot (page images at HathiTrust)
Incidental acquisition of word meanings from expositions that systematically vary text features (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Center for the Study of Reading ;, 1985), by Patricia A. Herman, National Institute of Education (U.S.), Beranek Bolt, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Center for the Study of Reading (page images at HathiTrust)
The influence of word and text properties on learning from context (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Center for the Study of Reading ;, 1986), by William E. Nagy, Patricia A. Herman, Richard C. Anderson, National Institute of Education (U.S.), Beranek Bolt, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Center for the Study of Reading (page images at HathiTrust)
How can I increase my vocabulary : twelve golden guides (Correct English, 1909), by Josephine Turck Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
Vaterhaus und muttersprache ... (F. Frommann, 1860), by Karl Volkmar Stoy (page images at HathiTrust)
Child's vocabulary and its development (T︠S︡arska Pridvorna Pechatnit︠s︡a, 1911), by John R. Pelsma and Ivan A. Georgov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Century vocabulary builder (The Century Co., 1922), by Garland Greever and Joseph M. Bachelor (page images at HathiTrust)
Mokanda mwa etango ya lobuno. (Baptist Missionary Society, 1903), by A. M. Forfeitt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
College words and phrases. ([New Haven, 1900), by Eugene Howard Babbitt (page images at HathiTrust)
English word lists : a study of their adaptability for instruction (George Wahr Pub. Co., 1963), by Charles Carpenter Fries, Alice Aileen Traver, and Committee on Modern Languages (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Enrich your vocabulary : handbook III (Russell Press, 1948), by Dwight Le Merton Bolinger and Ralph William Weiman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Knowing and using words. (Appleton, 1948), by Edward Jones Kilduff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Useful words and how they can help you. (House of Little Books, 1944), by John Taylor Gause (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A Comprehensive vocabulary for grades S1B to 4A, Laredo Public Schools (Field Studies in Education, Extension Teaching Bureau, Division of Extension, The University of Texas, 1940), by Texas. University. Division of Extension. Extension Teaching Bureau and Laredo (Tex.). Public Schools. Vocabulary Committee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Teaching a standard English vocabulary, with initial reading instruction, by Marie M. Hughes ... (Bronson printing company, 1932), by Marie Morrison Hughes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A New self-teaching course in practical English and effective speech, comprising vocabulary development, grammar, pronunciation, enunciation, and the fundamental principles of effective oral expression (Better-Speech Institute of America, 1936), by Estelle B. Hunter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
More power to your words! (Prentice-Hall, 1940), by Clement Wood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A dictionary handbook (Follett publishing company, 1936), by Fred Danford Cram (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
I want a word, a word manual and exercise book (Ashley printing company, 1944), by Havilah Babcock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A vocabulary information test (New York, 1928), by Angelina Louisa Weeks (page images at HathiTrust)
A teacher's word book of the twenty thousand words found most frequently and widely in general reading for children and young people (Teachers college, Columbia university, 1942), by Edward L. Thorndike (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Nature and amount of arithmetic in types of reading material for the elementary schools (School of Education, University of Michigan, 1932), by Clifford Woody (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A replicative investigation of the Buckingham-Dolch free-association word study (School of Education, University of Oregon, 1967), by H. Donald Jacobs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Word-games for developing a sight vocabulary (Madison Public Schools, 1951), by Madison (Wis.). Board of Education. Curriculum Dept and Bernice Elizabeth Leary (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A reading vocabulary for the primary grades (Teachers College, Columbia University, 1935), by Arthur I. Gates (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Toward better vocabulary. (Scott, Foresman, 1963), by William B. Mullen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Steps to mastery of words : my word study book : and the read-more, spell-more sound chart (Educational Service, 1951), by Nadine Fillmore (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The vocabulary of arithmetic (The University of Chicago, 1931), by Guy T. Buswell and Lenore John (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Basic vocabulary (Educational Development Laboratories, Inc., ;, 1955), by Stanford Earl Taylor and Helen Frackenpohl (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Language as a factor in the achievement of American-born students of Japanese ancestry. (University of Hawaii, 1934), by Ayako Kono (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A study of the vocabulary and rhetoric of the letters of Saint Augustine (The Catholic University of America, 1923), by Wilfrid Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)
The special vocabularies of the public school subjects ... ([Public School Pub. Co.], 1924), by Luella Cole (page images at HathiTrust)
Joint reading between mothers and their Head Start children : vocabulary development in two text formats (National Reading Research Center, 1994), by Anthony D. Pellegrini (page images at HathiTrust)
Developmental trends in lexical decisions for abstract and concrete words (National Reading Research Center, 1993), by Paula J. Schwanenflugel and Carolyn Elizabeth Akin (page images at HathiTrust)
An analysis and classification of the sounds of English words in a primary reading vocabulary. ([Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1925., 1925), by Anna Dorothea Cordts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The vocabulary of childrens' themes. ([Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1924., 1929), by Grace M. McKee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Let's see (Webster Division, McGraw-Hill, 1943), by Clarence R. Stone (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A vocabulary builder (Educators Pub. Service, 1952), by Austin M. Works and Educators Publishing Service (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Dar slova : iskusstvo izlagatʹ svoi mysli ([Tipo-lit. I. Lurʹe], 1910), by N. Abramov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Tōsho zōho Kinmō zui (880-06 Kōto : Kyūkōdō jushi ... [and 8 others] : Taniguchi Kanzaburō, Kansei gan-nen [1789], 1789), by Tekisai Nakamura, Shūsui Shimokōbe, and Shōundō Shoten (page images at HathiTrust)
A study in Italian vocabulary frequency. ([Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1927., 1927), by Mary Elizabeth Thompson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Workbook for English vocabulary building (Heath, 1948), by Richard D. Mallery (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A basic writing vocabulary : 10,000 words most commonly used in writing (College of Education, University of Iowa, 1926), by Ernest Horn (page images at HathiTrust)
The Century vocabulary builder (Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1950), by Garland Greever and Joseph M. Bachelor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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