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Summary: A convenient way to expand vocabulary
Review: I am an English teacher and have used this book for many years as a supplement to improve students' knowledge of advanced words.
It is convenient and useful, but students do get a bit bored by the repetitive exercises. There are many other good vocabulary books on the market, but I would recommend especially the Barron's books, notably 1,100 Words You Need to Know and Simon's Saga for the SAT I Verbal -- a "novel" approach that is rather advanced but is very entertaining and really works.
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Summary: Fun for word lovers
Review: I bought this book to help study for one of the categories in a local spelling bee (the category was words from Reader's Digest's "It Pays to Enrich your WordPower"). I love word and always enjoy reading this section of the Reader's Digest so having years and years worth of these lists is fun!
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Summary: A great little "Throne Book."
Review: I picked this up as one of a set of three.The others are "Quotable Quotes" and "Life in these United States."; packaged as "Quips,Quotes,and Quizzes".
This book is a set of 50 lists of words to test your knowledge.This has been a long time feature of Reader's Digest.As an Engineer,who considers his "word knowledge" rather minimal,this book was very enjoyable.Each list has 20 words with 4 meanings to choose from.My scores ranged from 12 to 17,and rated as excellent. These little tests made me feel pretty good,but I would hardly consider my skills in word power as excellent.One thing that surprised me was that many common word's meanings are misunderstood.To add a little spice most lists have one or two words I've never heard of. That's twice,who says you can't end a sentence with a preposition?
For a taste of what's in this little book... What is an Elision? What is a Metrognome?..a city elf. There are a lot of one-liners scattered throughout the book.
"A rare book: One that comes back after you've lent it."
If you've read "An Exaltation of Larks" by James Lipton;you'll like the slant of these..
"A raft of survivors."
"A drive of cars."
"A pound of hammers"
to which I would like to add..
An opinion of reviewers. A great little tome to pass the time while the King sits on the Throne;and I've still got two more to go!
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