Most writers should have a more powerful vocabulary than they do.
Do you misuse and mispronounce some words?
Do you sometimes find yourself at a loss to express exactly what you mean?
Do you fail to comprehend complex words while reading?
Are you tired of having people seemingly talk "above" you?
If you answered YES to any of these questions, then 30 Days To A More Powerful Vocabulary is the perfect solution. Millions of people have improved their academic performance, job skills, and self-esteem, just by spending fifteen minutes a day completing the simple exercises and self-tests within this bestselling guide!
You will learn, step-by-step, how to
- increase your language power with word "roots"
- find the words to sell your ideas
- learn new words daily
- check on your progress with 30 challenging tests
PLUS - Complete Index to New Words and Pronunciation Key
30 Days To A More Powerful Vocabulary
30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary
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by: Wilfred Funk
Norman Lewis
Release Date: 15 March, 1991, Media: Mass Market Paperback
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Reader Comments for 30 Days To A More Powerful Vocabulary
Very helpful for improving your vocabulary
Each `day' introduces 10-20 words based on a specific theme or idea-sometimes, it is a group of words with similar roots (monologue, monogamy, etc.), sometimes it has words with opposite meanings, words are grouped by parts of speech.
The chapters/days then spend a few pages reviewing those new words through various methods--the author's theory is that by forcing you to write down and select the words within a number of contexts, you will learn the words faster.
Yes you can have a more powerful vocabulary, but not in 30 Days
Despite advertising hype - 30 Days To A More Powerful Vocabulary - no ONE book will double your vocabulary, but reading several vocabulary-building books can double your vocabulary. Different vocabulary-building books have different words and different explanations. If you don't learn a word from one book, you can learn it from another book.
Any vocabulary-building book will have many words, a fourth to half the book, that you already understand. You can always skip or skim the easy-to-you words.
Varied, incomplete word selection is another reason for using several books. Some books just take words used on past-standardized tests, neglecting other words. Other books, limit their words to words based on word roots, neglecting others. Often authors have thrown in personal favorite words, even if others rarely use the words. If you see a word in two or three books, it's generally a need-to-know word.
The main weakness of 30 Days To A More Powerful Vocabulary, and no book is perfect, is the word selection. ... some of the definitions are dated. But the price is right and if you read several vocabulary-building books, you will not have a problem identifying the few dated words.
