Dictionary Jumpstart: categories

What Each Module Category Contains

A Jump Back in Time
This is a fun and entertaining way to become familiar with holidays, events, and names in history that captioners must have in their dictionaries to get that A+ mark! Accompanying this category is a daily calendar so you can learn facts and scribble down any brief forms. Take a Jump Back in Time and add about 3,500 entries to your dictionary!
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Animals & Plants
Contains animals, cat and dog breeds, flowers and houseplants, trees, dinosaur terms, and fish.
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Around the House
Includes names, types, and brands of Appliances, Cleaning Products, Cookware, Flooring, Furniture, Paint and Windows. For example: Frigidaire, Clorox, Bissell, Febreze, Cuisinart, cutlery, Pergo, Woven, Flexsteel, lanai, Serta, curio, Glidden, Pella, chandelier, Frieze and futon.
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DJ2
Over 23,000 words to round out that dictionary including words such as platoon, masquerade, galoshes, ramshackle, parachute, chameleon, eclectic, okey-dokey along with other basic vocabulary.

Business & Financial
Includes the largest banks, currency worldwide, computer terms, economics and investment terms. Also contains over 2,200 accounting and earnings terms along with brokerage companies and the top 1200 companies. Fashion & beauty contains beauty and fashion terms plus all the famous designers like Donna Karan, Vera Wang and more. Over 5,000 entries.
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Entertainment
Captioners, this is a MUST!! Stay up to date with this valuable category of
Actors (e.g. Bebe Neuwirth, Eriq La Salle, & Camryn Manheim; over 3,300 entries).
Musicians (e.g. k.d. Lang, Brad Paisley, Souldecision; over 2,300 entries).
Fashion Models (Amber Valletta, Heidi Klum, including over 600 others).
Entertainment also includes the names of over 1,400 Famous Writers, & 500 Artists.
*Future revisions of this category will be available to keep you up to date!
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Environment & Space
Includes astronomy terms including planets, galaxies, and astrological information. Also contains colors, science terms, weather and measurement.
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FDA-Approved Drugs
Broken down into 38 medical specialties. Data base supplied by the "Drug Speller." This category sold separately.
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Food & Health
Contains over 3,500 words including brands of candy and cereal, food and nutrition, along with herbs and spices. Contains restaurant chains, medications (prescription and OTC) and medical terms. Includes soft drinks, teas, coffees, beer, wine and liqueurs.
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For Fun
Entries include auto makes and models, motorcycle manufacturers, airport and airline names, board games, toy makers, holidays and related terms, gemstones, and music terms. Also includes cartoon characters from nursery rhymes, comic strips, children's programs, etc. (e.g. Rapunzel, Pooh, Snuffleupagas).
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Gear Up!
Contains all the prefixes and suffixes (477 entries) predefined for your software. Also includes over 1700 homophones, homonyms, and other confusing words. Most importantly, a valuable list of over 5,400 words that answers the question of "is this word hyphenated or one word?"
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Geography
U.S. Geography, World Geography and geography terms contained within along with the names of Explorers, Islands, Mountains, Rivers & Seas. Over 2,700 entries.
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Legal Terms
NEW! Criminal terms, judicial terms and tax law terms. Over 2,800 entries.
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Media
Over 6,000 entries containing newspaper and magazine names, TV networks and TV shows and the names of news correspondents from all of the major TV networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX News, CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, NPR, etc.)
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Names
Over 5,000 words! Includes boys' names, girls' names, common surnames, popular brand names and Indian tribes of the United States.
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Politics
Contains Politics terms, World Leaders, Members of the Senate, the House, and our U.S. Governors are listed by state and the proper names are listed as first name, last name, one line after the other. This is also a learning tool to learn who serves for each state. The 20th century U.S. Supreme Court Justices are listed recent to past. War on Iraq terms. The proper names are also listed first name, last name, one line after the other. Also included are military terms and U.S. information including states, capitals, popular cities, and presidents of the past. Over 3,400 words! *Future revisions of this category will be available to keep you up to date!
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Religion
Terms of seven religions; Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism and Sikhism. Also includes an extensive array of Bible terms. Approximately 10,000 entries.
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Sports
Includes over 5,300 entries including terms, teams, famous players, Hall of Fame members from each sport, and arena names for NFL, NBA, and MLB venues. (The proper names are listed first name, last name, one line after the other. This can be a valuable learning tool). The More Sports subcategory contains a list of all sports including croquet, Frisbee, etc. *Future revisions of this category will be available to keep you up to date!
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Vocabulary
Over 2,500 advanced vocabulary words such as appurtenance, cacography, defenstration, extravasate, jetavator, etc.
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World
Languages, Nationalities, Foreign words used in the English language, Greek Alphabet, religions of the world, all the countries and their capitals. The Canada subcategory contains the provinces and popular cities. *Future revisions of this category will be available to keep you up to date!
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