Word for Word Transform Your Vocabulary from Pedestrian to Precocious* in an Instant (*or from Sophisticated to Straightforward)

Name: Word for Word Transform Your Vocabulary from Pedestrian to Precocious* in an Instant (*or from Sophisticated to Straightforward)
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ISBN: 9780399535383

ISBN-10: 0399535381

ISBN-13: 9780399535383

Edition: 2009

Authors: James E. Snyder, James E. Snyder

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An ingeniously handy guide to help you transform chewinto masticate, rainyinto pluvian—or antediluvianinto plain old old. Attorney James Snyder didn’t set out to write a book about words. But one day he looked up the word animadversion. The definition said it means the same thing as aspersion. He wasn’t quite sure what that meant, so he looked it up. It meant the same thing as slander. At last he was getting somewhere— and he stumbled upon an inconvenient truth about dictionaries: If you don’t know big words, they sometimes aren’t much help. So Snyder started collecting what he calls one-word definitions—simple words for fancy ones, and fancy words for simple ones. So whether you’re a…

Book details

List price: $13.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 4.51" wide x 8.00" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.352
Language: English