The Big Book of Words You Should Know: Over 3,000 Words Every Person Should be Able to Use (And a few that you probably shouldn't)

Michelle Bevilacqua,Justin Cord Hayes,David Olsen

The Big Book of Words You Should Know: Over 3,000 Words Every Person Should be Able to Use (And a few that you probably shouldn't)
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Adams Media Corporation
Country
United States
Published
17 January 2009
Pages
443
ISBN
9781605501390

The Big Book of Words You Should Know: Over 3,000 Words Every Person Should be Able to Use (And a few that you probably shouldn’t)

Michelle Bevilacqua,Justin Cord Hayes,David Olsen

Do you know what quatrefoil and impolitic mean? What about halcyon or narcolepsy ?

This book is a handy, easy-to-read reference guide to the proper parlance for any situation. In this book you will find: Words You Absolutely Should Know (covert, exonerate, perimeter); Words You Should Know But Probably Don’t (dour, incendiary, scintilla); Words Most People Don’t Know (schlimazel, thaumaturgy, epergne); Words You Should Know to Sound Overeducated (ad infinitum, nugatory, garrulity); Words You Probably Shouldn’t Know (priapic, damnatory, labia majora); and more.

Whether writing an essay, studying for a test, or trying to impress friends, family, and fellow cocktail party guests with their prolixity, you will achieve magniloquence, ebullience, and flights of rhetorical brilliance.

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