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Marvin Terban
Now revised with up-to-date explanations of more than 700 everyday American idioms and their origins, this dictionary contains entries that are amusing as well as educational.
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A collection of over seventy riddles using homographs, words that are spelled the same but differ in meaning and pronunciation.
Help students become stronger writers with these fun packets on the important topics of capitalization, commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, and much more! Each reproducible packet targets and teaches one type…
Traces the origins of more than 100 eponymous words–words derived from the names of people or places. For example sandwich is an eponymous word from the eponym, Earl of Sandwich…
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A collection of progressively harder to guess palindrome riddles.
Thirty popular expressions such as straight from the horse’s mouth and white elephant are amusingly explained and illustrated. Full color.
Introduces and explains more than 100 expressions which mean something different than the separate words in the group. For example: raise the roof, hold your horses, and carry a tune.
With a brand new design, 1,000 additional words, and new fun sections, this updated dictionary is an ideal spelling resource for students. It offers more than 150 memory tricks to…
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This collection of original riddles is unlike any other because the main words in each answer sound exactly alike, but have different meanings. Zany illustrations add to the fun and…
An abundant cache of ideas for using words and wordplay to create engaging riddles and jokes.
Aiming to illuminate the difference between a sentence that’s merely correct and one that’s dramatic, evocative, memorable or funny, this is an introduction to the figure of speech - a…
