classic powerful language vocabulary

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30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary (W . 540)
Dr. Wilfred Funk

Washington Square Press, 1968

A larger vocabulary can bring you quicker advancement!

30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary

12 reviews
Wilfred Funk, Norman Lewis

Pocket, 1991

A Great Book
Ahh...the pleasure of words, how could a man deny himself this Empyrean delight! Asceticism, at least in the realm of vocabulary, is a mortal sin that a true logophile should not hesitate to denounce. The organization of the book is worth heaping praises upon. Chapters, each of which should be finished in a day, are ordered thematically (eg Power Verbs and Foreign Words), that I personally found ...

Word Origins: A Classic Exploration of Words and Language

9 reviews
Wilfred Funk

Gramercy, 1992

A great basic word etymology for the non-linguist.
I stumbled upon this jewel at the local Rancho Bernardo library. My high school english teacher in India, Mr. F. X. Paul, owned a tattered copy and used to read to us aloud a page or two in his grammar class. It helped relieve our boredom brought upon by trying to memorize grammar rules and sentence parsing. Funk gives you a non-technical discourse on word etymologies. Grouped by ...

Six Weeks to Words of Power
Wilfred Funk

Pocket Books, 1969

Six weeks to words of power can help increase your social and financial success and strengthen your personality. (from back cover)

6 Weeks Word Power

3 reviews
Wilfred funk

Pocket, 1980

This book will make you the leader of the pack.
This book is not for the merely above average or even the top 10%: some chapters are clearly for the top one or two percent: the ivy leaguer. If you have mastered the trilogy of word mastery books: "Word Memory Power in 30 Days," "30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary" and "Word Power Made Easy", you may find some chapters even easy, but you will certainly still find sections of this book most ...