Reader's Digest Use Your Words

Reader's Digest Use Your Words
Author: Reader's Digest
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2019-02-05
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 162145424X

Want to feel smarter? Want to have the perfect quip at the tip of your tongue? Use Your Words combines Word Power Quizzes and Quotable Quotes from Reader's Digest, Amercia's Most Popular Magazine so you can do just that! Use Your Words is part word quiz book and part quote book, combined together in themed sections. It will be a combination of 2 of our most popular columns in Reader’s Digest Magazine—Word Power and Quotable Quotes. Quotable Quotes, as it appears today, first ran in January 1934. It was proceeded by similar quote columns, including Remarkable Remarks, which ran in the first ever issue of Reader's Digest in February 1922, and Significant Sayings, which ran in June 1922. These first columns featured the great minds of the day, including Herbert Hoover (before he became president), Lady Astor, and John D. Rockefeller. The quotes were, and continue to be, collected from a variety of books, speeches, journals, and articles. We've quoted both living and dead people. The column hasn't changed much, except for the art. It began as a one-page list of quotes and continues to be a one-page list of quotes. Quotable Quotes is second to Laughter the Best Medicine in column popularity. Word Power first ran in January 1945—January 2020 will mark 75 years. Word Power's creator, Wilfred Funk, was a poet and lexicographer—his family was the “Funk” of the reference publisher Funk & Wagnalls. He presented his quiz idea to Dewitt Wallace in 1944. Wilfred's son Peter Funk wrote the column from the 1960s to the 1990s. Current writers are a married couple who are well-known in the crossword/puzzle world: https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/wordgame/crbio.htm The column hasn’t changed much—it has 15 words now instead of 20. It has themed columns (car words, Italian words) rather than words based on RD. It has a sidebar that goes in-depth on something related to the theme. Word Power is our 3rd most popular column in the magazine.

Improve Your Word Power

Improve Your Word Power
Author: Caroline Taggart
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2019-07-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1789291836

Test your word power with this themed collection of multiple-choice vocabulary challenges.

Life in These United States

Life in These United States
Author: Reader's Digest
Publisher:
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1996
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9780895778550

The American spirit is alive and well in this collection of heartwarming, often hilarious anecdotes about life in big cities, small towns, and hidden hamlets from coast to coast. Selected from thousands of contributions submitted to Reader's Digest each year, these delightful glimpses of our national preoccupations, regional points of pride, and down-home wisdom capture the idiosyncracies, interests, and ideals of ordinary people. 200+ color illustrations.

Reader's Digest Word Power Quiz Book

Reader's Digest Word Power Quiz Book
Author: Reader's Digest
Publisher: Readers Digest
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2007-05-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780762108640

This collection of 52 quizzes is for anyone who's ever puzzled over the exact meaning of a word or phrase encountered on the pages of a newspaper, magazine, or book; for those readers eager to expand their own vocabulary; and everyone intrigued by the power of words to persuade, clarify, or simply entertain. Like Reader's Digest's popular column, the quizzes here illuminate the inner workings of the English language, revealing in a fun and challenging format its complexity, subtleties, and magic. There's a quiz for every week of the year. Each focuses on a specific theme or area of interest and features a list of 20 words with four possible definitions for each word. Have fun while you: - Discover the precise meaning of unfamiliar words you've encountered - Learn to distinguish between words that may have confused you in the past - Add new or unusual words to your vocabulary - Find out where you stand on the word power scale by using the simple rating system included on the answer pages These exercises are bound to stimulate your brain muscles and help you develop a better vocabulary--you'll be amazed at how much fun increasing your word power can be.

Humor in Uniform

Humor in Uniform
Author: Editors of Reader's Digest
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2008-05-01
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1606525875

More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA