Better Vocabulary in 30 Minutes a Day (Better English Series) (Paperback)

by Edith Schwager (Author) "In American English, fledgling, acknowledgment and judgment, like abridgment, are spelled without an e after the g, although abridgement is also correct..." (more)
Key Phrases: abnormal fear, United States, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Star Trek (more...)

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Product Description
Better Vocabulary in 30 Minutes a Day offers a comprehensive method for adding a more impressive list of words to your everyday speech and how to use them effortlessly and accurately. Besides giving definitions, this invaluable guide provides roots, stems, and elements of words so that you can increase your vocabulary with thousands of new words. Sprinkled throughout the book are fascinating stories about words and origins.

About the Author
Edie Schwager has more than 30 years of experience writing and editing books and articles. She writes a popular column, "Dear Edie," for the AMWA (American Medical Writer's Association) Journal, offering advice on English usage. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 189 pages
• Publisher: Career Press; 1st edition (July 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564142477
• ISBN-13: 978-1564142474
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #54,653 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good book to fine tune your vocabulary, April 9, 2000

By	"kevinkm99" (Seattle) - See all my reviews

This book, from the Better English Series, is a fairly decent book for businessmen to sharpen their vocabulary. Although some of the words may already be in the vocabulary of middle to high level businessmen, it reinforces those, as well as clearly teaching new words through its 30 minute program (which I find, one can finish in about 15 minutes). The vocabulary presented covers a broad range of words, and the book is overall a straight-ahead, no-nonsense guide for businessmen, as well as for people of occupations in which an expanded vocabulary is beneficial to their job.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better Vocab. in 30 Min. a Day, August 6, 2004

A Kid's Review

I thought that this book was very helpful. It covers a wide range of words, and as soon as I tried the exercises that it provides, I found that it was really easy afterwards to use the words to spice up my essays and book reports at school.