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3.66 AVERAGE
3.66 AVERAGE
Helpful little book with a variety of good exercises and tips to build vocabulary, but some of the word usage is outdated. For those on a tight study schedule, it can be completed in less than thirty days without losing learned word retention.
If you haven't read yet "Word Power Made Easy" - by Norman Lewis, then I will suggest you to read that first. It has better coverage, and friendly tone to teach the concepts used in this book.
I picked up this, as Norman Lewis is coauthor on this as well as this too is one of the popular book on vocabulary buiilding.
One good thing about this book, is each lesson is small, authors suggest just 15 min/day, though it took me little more. But I completed the book in flat 9 days. Off-course I was spending more than 15 min/day on this.
Book claims to have around 500 words, but the index has list of 408 words. After completion, I could recollect many words and many I have already learned as a part of "Word Power Made Easy". And for the words that I am not able to recollect easily - I added in a list for further practicing at "https://www.vocabulary.com/lists/7849290" - "30Days2Vocab".
Overall nice book to read on the go, on commute or just before sleep to cover lot of ground about vocabulary.
All the best.
I picked up this, as Norman Lewis is coauthor on this as well as this too is one of the popular book on vocabulary buiilding.
One good thing about this book, is each lesson is small, authors suggest just 15 min/day, though it took me little more. But I completed the book in flat 9 days. Off-course I was spending more than 15 min/day on this.
Book claims to have around 500 words, but the index has list of 408 words. After completion, I could recollect many words and many I have already learned as a part of "Word Power Made Easy". And for the words that I am not able to recollect easily - I added in a list for further practicing at "https://www.vocabulary.com/lists/7849290" - "30Days2Vocab".
Overall nice book to read on the go, on commute or just before sleep to cover lot of ground about vocabulary.
All the best.
I found the 1974 edition of this book on my uncle’s old book shelf. I’ve been doing basically the same job for fifteen years and figured my non-professional vocabulary had stalled out so I though it wouldn’t hurt to learn some new words. It turns out I knew most of the words in this book already, and some of the words I learned I probably will never have a use for - weltschmerz, vainglorious, uxorious, somnambulism – to name a few. Weltschmerz? Wow, my Word program doesn’t even recognize this one. It may have been booted out of the dictionary to make room for disco, space shuttle, or Internet. There was also a chapter entitled “French Phrases You Can Use”.
This book was REALLY dated. It felt more like it was written in the 1960s to me. It would be interesting to read a more current version of this to see how the authors changed it to correspond to our shiny, modern, utopian world.
This book was REALLY dated. It felt more like it was written in the 1960s to me. It would be interesting to read a more current version of this to see how the authors changed it to correspond to our shiny, modern, utopian world.
marking DNF and not giving a star rating. It's essentially a dictionary but all the words are put into sentences. Great for understanding concepts and how words relate (specifically in finance), but just don't have time for this right now.
I completed this book on a vacation. It was fun and interesting and a learned a lot of new words. I have been meaning to go through it again, but I think I'll not do it so fast this time and only do the 30 minutes a day.
informative
lighthearted
medium-paced
informative
medium-paced
Structured learning for people not interested in reading a wide range of literature.
It is a good reminder to continually maintain and expand your working vocabulary.
It is a good reminder to continually maintain and expand your working vocabulary.