The Editors of Reader's Digest - Word Power (Properly Cut and Bookmarked)

Cover Contents Introduction: The Wonder of Words Words - Our Most Ancient Legacy Our Native Tongue, Alive and Well Word Power Test No. 1: Words of Lincoln Your Words Give You Away Are You a Skid-Talker? Word Power Test No. 2: Relics of Old English Plain Thoughts on Fancy Language A Word With You, Miss Thistlebotton Word Power Test No. 3: Medical Terms Like, I Mean, You Know, Right? Ways to Write Better Letters Word Power Test No. 4: People, Beasts and Places Classroom Classics Are We Becoming a Nation of Illiterates? Word Power Test No. 5: English from Greece, Rome and Elsewhere Write the Way You Talk A Civil Tongue Word Power No. 6: Words From Reader's Digest Was Paul Revere a Minute-person? Watch Your Language! Word Power Test No. 7: To Look and Dance and Read and Listen How To Argue Thank You, William Shakespeare! Word Power Test No. 8: Nouns - Airborne and Not Alphabet You'll Like These Puns Anything Goes, Verbalizationwise Word Power Test No. 9: Living Latin The Meaning Manglers Why Johnny Can't Write Word Power Test No. 10: Advertising Words Don't Give Up on English Beware These Word-Traps! Word Power Test No. 11: Moderately Difficult Words A Tip on Straight Thinking Masters of Babble Word Power Test No. 12: Book Words There's a Meaning Here Somewhere The Most Nerve-Shattering Word in the Language Word Power Test No. 13: From the Writings of Margaret Mead As Silly as a Simile I Know Whatcha Mean Word Power Test No. 14: Headliners - News in a Nutshell Neither Black Nor White I Keep Hearing Voices Word Power Test No. 15: The Sporting Life The Delicate Art of Asking Questions The Baffling World of Psychobabble Word Power Test No. 16: How Cicero Made Adjectives Oh, Waddle I Do? Why Did They Call It That? Word Power Test No. 17: Political Vocabulary There Is Magic in a Word of Praise One Man's Mede Word Power Test No. 18: The Lore of Bench and Bar Watch Your Language! My, O Myopia! Word Power Test No. 19: High School Specials "Englisch As She Is Goodly Spocken"* Word Power Test No. 20: A Nosegay of Look-Alikes The American Language Name-Changing - It's the Custom! Word Power Test No. 21: Words Ending in "ite" Accuracy Is a Winner's Policy Cracking the Real-Estate Code Word Power Test No. 22: The French All Around Us "Everything Begins With a Pencil" Long Live The Book! Word Power Test No. 23: The Joy of Self-Improvement Words That Have Appeared In These Tests