Reader's Digest Word Power Quiz Book: 1,000 Word Challenges from America's Most Popular Magazine (50th Anniversary Celebration)

by Reader's Digest Association

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0895779013
• ISBN13: 9780895779014
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Readers Digest
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Build your vocabulary, a simple way to impress people

People are often judged by the size of the vocabulary that they can use with effectiveness. If you use the right word you can impress, but the wrong word and you look like a dunce. Developing a powerful vocabulary takes basic practice, either by reading challenging books or working through exercises. This book contains some very "simple" exercises in vocabulary building and they were taken from the pages of Reader's Digest. If you have ever tried one of the "Word Power" exercises from an issue, you know how challenging they can be. The advantage here is that you can go from exercise to exercise, improving your mind and the quality of the words that come out of your mouth or your pen. I enjoyed myself immensely as I learned many new words as I worked through the exercises.

A great little "Throne Book."

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!

Fun for word lovers

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!

a fun book worth the money

this is a nice book well worth the cash outlay. One can easily lay it down and pick it up, thumbing through it and doing the quizes etc. An entertaining and affordable read for word lovers.