Word for Word
Transform Your Vocabulary from Pedestrian to Precocious* in an Instant (or from Sophisticated to Straightforward)
$37.42
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2009
Summary
An ingeniously handy guide to help you transform chew into masticate, rainy into pluvian, or antediluvian into 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: …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780399535383 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0399535381 |
| Author: | James E., Jr. Snyder |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | TarcherPerigee |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2009 |
| Weight: | 159g |
| Dimensions: | 114mm x 203mm |
| Audience Age: | 17-17 |
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James E., Jr. Snyder
Snyder received his BA in history from Wake Forest College in 1967 and his Juris Doctor degree in law from the Wake Forest University School of Law in 1970. He has practiced law in Lexington since his admission to the bar.
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