This second edition presents 12 strategies (focusing on one strategy a week) for students to increase vocabulary and boost communication skills, suggesting that these techniques can easily double the average person's vocabulary. After an introduction, the book presents the following 12 techniques: (1) Expand on What You Know: Synonyms, Antonyms, and Homophones; (2) Build Through Word Structure: Base Words and Prefixes; (3) Build Through Word Endings: Base Words and Suffixes; (4) Find Related Words and Grow; (5) Gain Meaning from Context; (6) Say Exactly What You Mean; (7) Play the Analogies Game; (8) Create Word Maps and Word Webs; (9) Search for Treasure in Dictionaries and Thesauri; (10) Learn More About Word Structure: Roots and Affixes; (11) Discover Latin and Greek Word Families; and (12) Take a Foreign Tour: Words From Other Languages. An epilogue (Keep Building Your Vocabulary: An Ongoing Process) is also included. (PM)