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Three Cups of Tea
For writing about “Three Cups of Tea,” an account of Greg Mortenson’s efforts to build schools in Central Asia: Pakistan, education, Muslim, enrollment, village …
created: August 5, 2010
words: 900
author: Don Johnston Incorporated
use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
Canada PreConfederation For writing about the colonial history of Canada: Samuel de Champlain, fur trade, missionary post, Hudson’s Bay Company, Iroquois, settlement, allegiance …
created: August 5, 2010
words: 900
author: Don Johnston Incorporated
use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
Samuel Pepys
For writing about Samuel Pepys, the diarist: restoration, plague, favor, Fire of London, the Thames, manuscript …
created: August 5, 2010
words: 700
author: Don Johnston Incorporated
use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download
this dictionary
Gulf Oil Spill
For writing about the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico: drilling
rig, blowout, the Deepwater Horizon, disaster, ecosystem, toxicity,
vapor, oil plume, estuary …
created: July 2, 2010
words: 900
author: Don Johnston Incorporated
use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
U.S. Supreme Court For writing about the Supreme Court, past and present: Marbury v.
Madison, precedent, appeal, nomination … Use with the 12K Main
Dictionary or higher.
created: July 2, 2010
words: 700
author: Don Johnston Incorporated
use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
Oceanography 1
Basic words for writing about the ocean: marine life, plankton, food
chain, ocean current, trench, upwelling, continental slope, harbor, low
tide …
created: May 5, 2010
words: 600
author: Don Johnston Incorporated
use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download
this dictionary
Oceanography 2 Advanced AND basic words for writing about the ocean: bathyal
zone, meter, ecosystem dynamics, pH level … Use with the 12K Main
Dictionary or higher.
created: May 5, 2010
words: 1,000
author: Don Johnston Incorporated
use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download
this dictionary
Canadian Confederation
For writing about the unification of Canada: British Empire, colony,
treaty, convention, Fathers of Confederation, Canada West …
created: May 5, 2010
words: 700
author: Don Johnston Incorporated
use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download
this dictionary