Book Description
"Contains material adapted from The big book of words you should know"--T.p. verso.
Author : David Olsen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 27,41 MB
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1440528985
"Contains material adapted from The big book of words you should know"--T.p. verso.
Author : David Olsen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,32 MB
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1440529760
Have you struggled for just the right phrase when grappling with a class assignment? Crafting an office memo, do you want greater clarity and concision? Pounding away at a last-minute blog entry, haven't you ever thought, There has to be a better word for this? Now there is. Under the time-tested and respected banner of Roget's Thesaurus, here is an array of words and their definitions organized by meaning. With this volume at your side, you need never be stalled or stymied for an appropriate expression, whether speaking of the higher reaches of philosophy or holding forth on art, music, or poetry--or other highbrow pastimes. The more you expand your vocabulary, the richer and clearer your writing and conversation will become. And the better you'll be able to say exactly what you mean, joining intellectual discussions with confidence that you've found just the right words.
Author : David Olsen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 30,95 MB
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1440573093
The ultimate tool for students! Tired of using the same few phrases in all your presentations? Can't find the right expression to begin your college admissions essay? Stuck with a drab, uninspiring conclusion at the end of your research paper? Roget's Thesaurus of Words for Students will help you find the perfect words and phrases for any writing assignment. Unlike other titles that simply list related terms for each entry, this volume offers a pronunciation guide, definition, and a sample sentence for every word you look up, as well as for each of the synonyms under that entry. It also features hundreds of useful terms every student should know, making it the most essential tool on your desk when you're working on an essay or presentation. With Roget's Thesaurus of Words for Students at your side, you'll impress your teachers and advance straight to the head of the class!
Author : Robert W Bly
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 12,5 MB
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1440591075
The ultimate word book for aspiring intellectuals! The most compendious collection of words for aspiring scholars, this book helps you hold your own in intellectual discourse. Featuring 2,400 sophisticated, obscure, and obtuse terms, each page provides you with the definitions you need to know to lock academic horns with the clerisy. From antebellum and eleemosynary to impasto and putative, you will quickly master hundreds of erudite phrases that will improve your conversational elegance. Complete with definitions and sample sentences for each entry, The Big Book of Words You Should Know to Sound Smart will elevate your lexicon as you impress the susurration out of the perfervid hoi polloi.
Author : Peter Mark Roget
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 48,39 MB
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN :
Have you struggled for just the right phrase when grappling with a class assignment? Crafting an office memo, do you want greater clarity and concision? Pounding away at a last-minute blog entry, haven't you ever thought, There has to be a better word for this? Now there is. Under the time-tested and respected banner of Roget's Thesaurus, here is an array of words and their definitions organized by meaning. With this volume at your side, you need never be stalled or stymied for an appropriate expression, whether speaking of the higher reaches of philosophy or holding forth on art, music, or poetry--or other highbrow pastimes. The more you expand your vocabulary, the richer and clearer your writing and conversation will become. And the better you'll be able to say exactly what you mean, joining intellectual discussions with confidence that you've found just the right words.
Author : David Olsen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 33,6 MB
Release : 2008-12-17
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1440520771
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.
Author : Peter Mark Roget
Publisher : Puffin Books
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 46,79 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Author : Robert W Bly
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,23 MB
Release : 2009-04-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1598698869
ADULT LITERACY GUIDES & HANDBOOKS. This is a tongue-in-cheek guide to words that any smart, well-educated, pretentious person should be able to drop into cocktail conversation.The reader is encouraged to toss off words such as 'Disestablishmentarianism', 'descant', and 'autodidactic', proving, if not the value of a good education, at least the appearance of a good education.Each word is accompanied by a pronunciation guide and a sentence illustrating its use. Some of the sentences are made up, while others are well-known quotations.
Author : John Corey Whaley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 18,70 MB
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1442413344
"Seventeen-year-old Cullen's summer in Lily, Arkansas, is marked by his cousin's death by overdose, an alleged spotting of a woodpecker thought to be extinct, failed romances, and his younger brother's sudden disappearance."--Title page verso.
Author : Peter E. Meltzer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 13,3 MB
Release : 2010-05-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0393337944
An entertaining and useful alternative to run-of-the-mill thesauri, a new edition of a unique reference offers original synonyms with contextual examples from books, magazines and newspapers. Simultaneous.