Fiske WordPower

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The Exclusive System to Learn-Not Just Memorize-Essential Words

A powerful vocabulary opens a world of opportunity. Building your word power will help you write more effectively, communicate clearly, score higher on standardized tests like the SAT, ACT, or GRE, and be more confident and persuasive in everything you do.

But in order to truly increase your vocabulary, you need a system that works. With most guides, you end up only memorizing the new words for a short time, often not even long enough to use them in tests. Fiske WordPower is different.

Using the exclusive Fiske system, you will not just memorize words, but truly learn their meanings and how to use them correctly. This knowledge will stay with you longer and be easier to recall-and it doesn't take any longer than less-effective memorization.

How does it work? This book uses a simple three-part system:
1. Patterns: Words aren't arranged randomly or alphabetically, but in similar groups that make words easier to remember over time.
2. Deeper Meanings, More Examples: Full explanations-not just brief definitions-of what the words mean, plus multiple examples of the words in sentences.
3. Quick Quizzes: Frequent short quizzes help you test how much you've learned, while helping your brain internalize their meanings.

Fiske WordPower is the most effective system for building a vocabulary that gets you clear and successful results.

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review

(5 customer reviews)

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

Sooo Easy, May 31, 2008

A. Mcpherson "Decamillionaire" (ATL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fiske WordPower (Paperback)

This book is probably the easiest most organized vocabulary building book ever. I bought this book looking to improve my vocabulary for business school. I found much more. This book organized words into groups that are funny. Some Word Groups:
-Scary Things(anathema, specter, juggernaut, apocalypse)
-Don't Yell at Me(diatribe, invective, vituperation, admonish)
-Have Mercy(clemency, exonerate, absolve)
The word groups help remembering the words very easy. It is an outrageous, witty, humorous guide to building vocabulary.

Poor for Word Power, but Fun to Browse, April 10, 2012

Dustin - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fiske WordPower (Paperback)

SUMMARY
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In a phrase, "This book is interesting to browse, but it doesn't give you a 'powerful' vocabulary". Basically, I keep this book by my toilet. It's entertaining to browse through, but most of the words it offers up are either too common (meaning the average high schooler would probably know them) or too obscure (meaning that they would never be used outside of, well, a book purporting that it'll help build a 'powerful' vocabulary).

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My Expectations:
I'm an essay editor and tutor. My main concentration these days appears to be papers in the sciences, but, in the past, I did a lot of editing and tutoring in Creative Writing, Philosophy, and English. I've worked with students ranging from Grade 10 to university grad studies. I'm constantly looking for books to both show to my students and to amuse myself with. I picked up Fiske WordPower during a trip to America (I'm from Canada) because I thought it might be a good way to...Read more

Categorically sufficient., January 18, 2012

Young - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Fiske WordPower (Paperback)

The earlier chapters of Fiske, I really enjoyed. All of the chapters are split up and pertain to a category. But as you progress through the book, instead of introducing a variety of words, it just opts to give you synonyms and antonyms, which is kind of a bad idea for a vocabulary book, since words in other vocabulary building books will provide a list of them adjunct following the word. Though, there are mini-quizzes at the end of 3 chapters (3 10 set chapters). And there is a little read about parts of speech that is pretty helpful. For example, there is one about when to use lie, lay, lied, lying correctly. For under 10 dollars, it's not an awful buy, and i'd recommend getting it for an easy intro into "building your word power."