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Word Power Quiz Book

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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.

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!

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!

Having played this on Reader's digest for several years growing up, it was something i turned to for my daughter as well when i needed something to help hr build her vocabulary in a fun way.

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.