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30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary
30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary | Norman Lewis, Wilfred Funk
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A thirty-day vocabulary building program which includes a pronunciation guide and word origins and histories
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Vanessa.Rae
30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary | Norman Lewis, Wilfred Funk
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BestDogDad
30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary | Norman Lewis, Wilfred Funk
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I found the 1974 edition of this book on my uncle‘s old book shelf. I‘ve been doing the same job for fifteen years and figured my non-professional vocabulary had stalled. 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. It would be interesting to read the current version of this to see how the authors changed it to correspond to our shiny, modern, utopian world. 😫

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BestDogDad
30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary | Norman Lewis, Wilfred Funk
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Mr. Belligerent, at your service. 🧐

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BestDogDad
30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary | Norman Lewis, Wilfred Funk
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What the hell, Funk & Lewis?!?

mcipher Wow! That is... something. And clearly the reason I do the job I do. Thanks for the armchair psych lesson! 🤣😟 7y
BestDogDad @mcipher I know. I can‘t believe this. I almost want to buy the current edition of this book to see how they‘ve updated it. 7y
mcipher No, this is WAY better than the current one could ever be! 😂🤣 7y
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twohectobooks Well. I did just learn the actual definition of “sublimate” (I always interpreted it as a synonym for “suppress” and clearly never looked it up), but that‘s an interesting way of presenting things hahaha. 7y
claffy_reads Sublimate is also a term for when a solid becomes a gas- think when snow becomes fog. Meaning, I guess, that snow is the base impulse and fog is the socially acceptable outlet? 7y
BestDogDad @callielafleur Ha! Nice! 👍🏼 7y
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BestDogDad
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Found this ‘ol book on my uncle‘s bookshelf so I decided to learn some new words. It reeks of 1974, the year this edition was published. I wonder if these word laboratories are still in operation?!

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melissanorr
30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary | Norman Lewis, Wilfred Funk
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I found this note left in a book that I bought from Thrift Books. It was an academic work for college/graduate level students so I was particularly amused.

melissanorr This amuses me in the same way as the people who buy clearly marked erotica and then write 1 star reviews complaining it has too much sex. 7y
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