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30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary by Wilfred Funk and Norman Lewis is a guide book for building powerful vocabulary in English language. The book has a set of exercises and self-tests that will help one perfect their language skills, and in turn, perform better in job and academics. Summary Of The Book 30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary has exercises and self tests that are simple and engaging. They help in assessing the reader’s vocabulary, and enhancing it at the same time. There are just 30 chapters claiming to demand just a few minutes of one’s time throughout the month. The chapters include Second Day: Take This Twelve-Minute Test of Your Verbal Power, Fourteenth Day: Words of Human Traits, Fifteenth Day: Words for Human Faults, Eighteenth Day: Words About Personalities, Eleventh Day: Words for Phobias and Manias, Words About Words, Sixth Day: Verbs, and Nineteenth Day: Adjectives. 30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary by Wilfred John Funk and Norman Lewis was published in the year 1991 and has sold nearly four million copies in various editions. This guide book has become a manual of sorts for English language and gained immense popularity the world over. About The Authors Wilfred John Funk and Norman Lewis were both lexicographers, teachers, editors and authors. They co-authored the book 30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary, which was published in the year 1991. Funk’s other popular book is Six Weeks to Words of Power, and Lewis’ Word Power Made Easy is also a best seller. Lewis was more known for his travel books, and he spent his last days in London. Funk graduated from Princeton in 1909 to join his family business. He succumbed to arteriosclerosis in Montclair.