hors t u A e h t About | | Dr Wilfred Funk and Norman Lewis have _ both been deeply concerned with the history: | and use of the English Jariguage for many | | years As editors, lexicographers, teachers, and authors, they have each contributed ex- | tensively to this: important field But success- ' _ ful as they each have been individually, their success as collaborators ix-producinig 30 Days |: | toa More Powerful Vocabulary has been even | greater In various editions, at various prices, —_ ! this book ‘has sold nearly 4,000,000 copies “It is the most popular and most widely used | manual of its kind produced in the twentieth century, ni sa nts: fort bulk antity vy aiscou aqua Speci: available at i spectal oF furid’ raising mis ! TO! motions, premiu needs ae ft lẻ al ¡also be: crrested ~ Copyright 1642 by: wi , copyright © 1970 by Funk.& Wognalls, a igest Béoks, tne * of Teen All rights reserved, including the; this bobk or portions pereot n any f “,- For information address Fonk 53 East rth Street New Y & ¿ i Pocket Boks printinggoed ei ion Ap 1971 oy oN a2 8190, 99° 28 ăn 3885 8Á, ; © registered tendemars : ° POCKET and:colophon are: : ) of Simon & Schuster, Wie „°' - vận ° Contents PRONUNCIATION KEY FIRST DAY: Give SECOND © ¿ Us Fifteen.Minutes a4 Day ‘DAY: Take This Twelve-Minute Test of ¥Your Verbal Power _ THIRD , DAY: | ‘The Romance of Words FOURTH DAY: - Words for Mature Minds FIFTH DAY: "25 Words ‘About Doctors and Specials _ SIXTH DẠY: Verbs Give You Power ề SEVENTH DAY: ' Words About Theories ; 49 " EIGHTH DAY: | Quick Vocabulary Builder - 56 " NINTH DAY: TWENTY-FIRST A Quick Test of Your Progress to Date TENTH DAY: , Words : About Your Fellowmen ¿ DAY: ˆ ~ FOURTEENTH DAY: | Words for Human Faults SIXTEENTH “412 , Words * That Describe You TWENTY: FIFTH DAY: French Phrases TWENTY- SIXTH 176 tit ca You Can Use x88 - DAY: TWENTY-SEVENTH | - 102- DAY: Word Building by the “Unfolding Process” DẠY: 119 , ‘TWENTY EIGHTH 123 - TWENTY- “NINTH 198: DAY: Words from Classic Roots SEVENTEENTH DAY: A “Pop Quiz” 210 DAY: Words Change Their Meanings EIGHTEENTH’ DAY: 128 Words About Personalities NINETEENTH DẠY: Adjectives Give You Power DAY: Words the Modern Way - VH, si 166 ‘Words About Words | You Help to Create the American Language: TWENTIETH Learninig | TWENTY-FOURTH DAY: sa0a Words for Human Traits FIFTEENTH DAY: Can You Meet This Challenge? _ g6 Words That End ini “Qlogy” DAY: TWENTY-THIRD DAY: 87 DAY: 151 Test Your Progress 79 Words About Your Feelings THIRTEENTH TWENTY-SECOND 71 ELEVENTH DAY: Words for Phobias and Manias TWELFTH DAY: ‘Words from Latin "134 ta THIRTIETH "bay; , Your 30-Day Vocabulary Test ONE LAST ‘WORD: A Lifetime Habit - _ INDEX 220: 233 | _ #87 _ s0® gs ®& wv i | ‘Pronunciation Key rd _ The phonetic transcription of most words " pages ‘will be self-explanatory and compl in the following etely clear and _ obvious Only a very few symbols have to be practiced and understood before you start 3: This is the phonetic symbol (called schwa) which indicates “a weak, neutral vowel soun d occu rring in most of the unstressed -syllables in Engli sh speech, as “in circus,”* the a in alone, the e in happen, the u- ¬ The vowel sound in 20, nG, low, 80, đc 3, 65 The vowel sound in f60l, s66n, ndon, ete zh The sound of the in occasion, ‘treasure, measure, _ leisure, ete, ¬ 66 The vowel sound of bddk, 166k, ete ‘Many words are stressed on more than one syllable, although oily one syllable may receive the primary or ' strongest accent, When you say pyromaniac, for example, - you piace”the strongest stress on the third syllable (72a)— | _ that is, you say the third syllable with the greatest joudness, But the first | syllable, -py, also receives some stress; that is, * Funk & Wagnalls Standard Coll ege Dictionary (New York: Funk & Wagnatis, 1968} + ay’ jated: SAY’-shee-ay’-ted Fnchacology: abz-kee-OL/-e-jee opinionated: o-PIN’-ye-nay’-tod_ braggadocio: brag~o-DO -shee-ö toe oe oes ; , ce z " on xịt? ¬ [Tg TB Ho bie, " § 22 23 20 = Đ Ee L1 Ð Pyrobnanlae l - nee-ak Further examples: — i Si thus phonetically rewritten as py-ro-MAXY”= c» Y’), and only accent the second strongest (py’) ‘ ẹ - _ GiueUsfiteen Minutesa Day — ¬ ` " thes distincro,‘i, or ac To‘0 showshow these it louder than ro,” der than will capitalize and accent the strongest syllable RB sisle|| tions, we $3) 5/28! am s “you VN * " ‘| | hs - ; ¬ hon : tu - "¬ dị cv a ‘Your boss has a bigger vocabulary than you have - ThaPs one good reason why he’s your boss _|.- This discovery has been made in the word laboratories " Of the world, Not by theoretical English professors, but by practical, hard-headed scientists who have been searching © for the secrets of success, " ¬ After a host of experiments and years of testing they’ have found out: hà ¬ - | Thát # your vocabulary is limited your charices of suc- " cv _ ”_ a oe Co | _ €@ areĐĐ lmited, ơ That one of the easiest and quickest ways to get ahead ` _is by consciously building up your knowledge of words , ae That the vocabulary of the average person , almost stops ' | growing by the middie twenties, — ‘And that from then on it is necessary to have an THỦ intel-Hgent plan if progress is to be made, No hit-or-miss | methods will do, ST pe VKe | BIRST DAY Give Us Fifteen Minutesa Day ‘It has long since been satisfactorily established that a high executive: does not have a large vocabulary merely be- cause of the opportunities of his position That would be _ Clearer and more accurate your thinking will be Words His skill in words was a tremendous help in getting him his - New ˆ Jersey gave a vocabulary test to one’ ca Code you - while not a single young man of the lower 25 per cent had _ become anexecutive, = ro - periment The ages and background of thé members öf both groups were the same, and each group represented a Similar, cross-section of the community One, the control dition, special and rigorous vocabulary training At the end of the period the geades of the students in the vocabu-: lary class surpassed the grades of the members of the control group, aot only in English, but in every cthẹr ‘measure of intelligence as any three units of the standard and accepted Stanford-BinetI Q tests Words are the tools of thinking It naturally follows, the sales of a depart- paign speech threw the Catholic vote and the Presidential victory to Grover Cleveland, : Armies fight for phrases: “Make the world safe ‘for Democracy”; “V for Victory”; “Remember Pear] Harbor.” ‘Words have changed the direction of history Words can also change the direction of your life They can raise a _ man om mediocrity to success, We submit that if you methodically increase your vo-: cabularv you will improve your chances for success This book enliste active cooperation, continuous written | and oral response It wil! test you every step of the way, it will demand unceasing feedback from you, and thus it will lass, took the normal coursee The other class had, in ad- - Similarly “Professor Lewis M Terman of Stanford Uni- mo have lost an election Four unfortunate words—“Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion”—usein d a Republican cam- ' been discovered that the one and only common charac- versity, has found that a vocabulary test is as accuratea od the mouths of clerka have quadrupled _ teristic of outstandingly successful people is “an extensive '.- knowledgs of the exact meaning of English words.” _, Subject including mathematica and the sciences ment store, The wrong words used by a campaign orator Some of the factors that lead to success can be measured "as scientifically as the contents of a test tube, and it has Two classea in A hinh school were selected fdr an ef- ` of exchange, the coin with Words are explosive Phrases are packed with TNT A ` single word can destroy a ‘friendship, can start or cnđ a marital battle, can land a large order “The right phrases in Five years later, all, without exception, of those who had - passed in the upper 10 per cent had éxecutive positions, , Vocabulary, is one indication of intelligence Learning power measurably sharpezs when vocabulary increases Here's the proof " Số Vy are your medium words you relate to people, communicate your feelings and thoughts to them, influence them, persuade them, control them In short, through words you shape your own destiny For your words are your personality; your vocabulary is hundred young men Who were studying to be ‘industrial’ executives : which you business with all those around -you With ' job : ¬ Do Dr Johnson O’Connor of the Human Engineering Laboratory of Boston and of the Stevens Institute of Technology : in Hobokex, sói _then, that the more words you have at your command, the putting the cart before.the horse Quite the reverse is true có © si ˆ nake word» your friends and allies _.We expect to prove to you that developing a-rich and “robust vocabulary can be both fun and challenging Give us fifteen minutes a day, and we will guarantee that ˆ at the endof # month, when you have turned-over the last page of this book your words, your reading, your conver- ~ Sation and your life will all have’ a néw and đeeper mean- ing for you a c For words can make you egréatl TS - SG Take Thỉa Tưelve-Minute Test 7z will show you how to strengthen any weak points that may Tân have appeared et _ How words treat you? Are you comfortable \ with them? Do they.come easily to you? When you write and speak, your words paint the sort of picture of you that - ; |E will you the mọst good ¡in this hiphly competiive - world? Does your language usually present a’ true reflection of your mind, your emotions, and your personality? Or does it sometimes betray you and blur your thoughits? Do people occasionally misunderstand - compel them to listen, react, obey? Take This Twelve- you? Or.can you ' Like everyone else, you want’ certain things from life ‘No matter what those benefits are, or what particular way you have chosen to go about getting them, you know that your: first-and most effective means will be the words you use " ¬- mo , ‘In short, the satisfaction and the success you get out of life depend very greatly on the skill with which you communicate your needs, your desires, your opinions to others Ready to discover ‘what your command of language says Minute Testof + Your Verbal Power _ about you? - First, we will take your word portrait When ‘the picture is finished, you will know how you look to others as a conversationalist and how you may-ap‘pear when you writea simple social note or a business letter = - a TEST T ` DIRECTIONS: Write in the blank space next to each of the © ‘The lines of your’ likeness that are to be drawn here ‘will _ words in the following list another word that begins with ‘ indicate the extent of your vocabulary, the facility with - whịch you can recall and use words, and the -knowledge & and has a meaning diréctly opposite to the given word _ Time: 60 seconds that you have of their precise meanings There will also be > brief speliing and pronunciation tests so that we can geta ¬ complete picture ~ You will find the tests in this chapter simple and entertainitg They will take exactly twelve minutes, and when you, are through and have checked your score, you will kriow what’s wrong, if anything, with your vocabulary and - your use of words You will, in short, have painted your we Then, in the chapters that follow, ~ ‘own word portrait _ co " Verbal Speed (Elementary), _ EXAMPLE: _- fast sweet buy START THMUNG: slow sour sell - Í.'fall north happy :=4, diÏerent dangerous - ˆ ` —-— ,