Smart Words
Vocabulary for the Erudite
$35.54
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
3 November 2008
Summary
How and where to use 500 of the words that make you sound more cultured, worldly, and downright smart.Whoever said sounding smart had to be painful? It’s all in how you acquire the “ten-dollar words” of English. Smart Words makes fast and smooth learning of words such as prelapsarian,sedulous, sybaritic and draconian. How? By sticking to ultra-simple definitions, then offering a memorable–and often funny–description of when or why to use the word. A sample sentence shows you how. And the phon…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780399534645 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0399534644 |
| Author: | Mim Harrison |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | TarcherPerigee |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 3 November 2008 |
| Weight: | 150g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 114mm |
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About The Author
Mim Harrison
Mim Harrison is an award-winning commercial writer. She is also the author of three books on language- Wicked Good Words, Smart Words, and Words at Work. In addition, Mim is the founding editor of Levenger Press, a specialty publisher that has celebrated some of the famous words of Winston Churchill, Samuel Johnson, and Henry David Thoreau. Mim lives with her husband and their miniature dachshund in South Florida.
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