You should study the lessons in order, For example, after studying lesson 1, go directly to lesson 2. The book is designed to provide systematic review of words in previous lessons. By studying the lessons out of order you will be defeating the purpose of the review system. Let's examine a sample entry to see the kinds of information you will learn. intricate adj. having many parts; finely detailed adv. intricately syn. complex n. intricacy The intricate design of the vase made it a valuable piece for her collection. I cannot begin to understand all of the intricacies of modern automobile motors. The entry features the word intricate. Directly under the word, you will find other forms of the same word. These words have the same general meaning; they represent the different parts of speech of the word. For each of the forms, the part of speech is given. The following abbreviations for parts of
A representative of the humanities, Walter W. Skeat, a distinguished English philologist and editor of Chaucer, proposed a cipher in 1896 that amounted to a Vigenere with key ABCDE; when hordes of amateur cryptanalysts knocked it off, he had the grace to bow and retire. Nearly all the cryptographic fossils entombed in dusty books or in old files of patent offices deserve their oblivion. They are too prone to error or too easy to solve or too cumbersome. Many an inventor delights in intricacy. Poorly endowed with empathy, he never considers the possibility that cipher clerks will not dote as lovingly upon the complex calculations of his cipher as he does; he fails to realize that to the clerks ciphering is not a pleasant after-hours recreation but a day-long, dull, boring job, about as exciting as adding up columns of figures, and that they would rather be out on a date with a girl friend. Charles Babbage asserted that no man's cipher was worth looking at
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