This entertaining and informative reference book features sophisticated and surprising alternatives to common words together with guides to usage. Avoiding traditional thesauruses' mundane synonym choices, Peter E. Meltzer puts each word-whether it's protrepic, apostrophise, iracund or emulous-in context.
FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand NewThis entertaining and informative reference book features sophisticated and surprising alternatives to common words together with guides to usage. Avoiding traditional thesauruses' mundane synonym choices, Peter E. Meltzer puts each word—whether it's protrepic, apostrophise, iracund or emulous—in context.
Peter E. Meltzer, the author of the best-selling The Thinker's Thesaurus and So You Think You Know Baseball?, is an attorney and a former professor at Rutgers University School of Law.
"This book will lend hours of pleasure-as well as help you preserve the highest layers of the English vocabulary." -- John McWhorter, author of The Language Hoax "A million dollars' worth of fifty-cent words." -- Erin McKean, editor, Verbatim "Delves into the mostly untapped reservoir of the English lexicon, offering readers more than top-of-mind word choices." -- Dow Jones Newsletter
"This book will lend hours of pleasure--as well ashelp you preserve the highest layers of the Englishvocabulary."
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