A Book About Words
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| Author | : Robert W Bly |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2015-11-06 |
| Genre | : 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 | : Barefoot Books |
| Publisher | : Barefoot Books |
| Total Pages | : 51 |
| Release | : 2019-09-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1782856609 |
Follow a bustling family through their busy day! Each scene is teeming with people, places and things, and you’ll meet people of all races, cultures, lifestyles and abilities as you go.
| Author | : Peter Bowler |
| Publisher | : David R. Godine Publisher |
| Total Pages | : 138 |
| Release | : 1985 |
| Genre | : Humor |
| ISBN | : 9780879235567 |
This book will teach you the practical riches of saying it well with good words, neglected words, precise words for vocabular exaltation.
| Author | : Katherine Locke |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 40 |
| Release | : 2021-05-25 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780316542067 |
Ari knows a lot of words for neighbors, including the pronouns each prefers, and with help from Uncle Lior, who always asks "What are your words," figures out which pronouns--and other words--fit best today.
| Author | : David Crystal |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0199210772 |
Words, Words, Words is all about the wonder of words. Drawing on a lifetime's experience, David Crystal explores language in all its rich varieties through words: the very building blocks of our communication. Language has no life of its own: it only exists in the mouths and ears, hands, eyes and brains of its users. As we are guided expertly and passionately through the mysteries and delights of word origins, histories, spellings, regional and social variations, taboo words, jargon, and wordplay, the contribution we all play in shaping the linguistic world around us becomes evident. Words, Words, Words is a celebration of what we say and how we say it. It invites us to engage linguistically with who we are: to understand what words tell us about where we come from and what we do. And as they continually shape our lives, it suggests ways that we can look at words anew and get involved with collecting and coining words ourselves.
| Author | : David Olsen |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2008-12-17 |
| Genre | : 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 | : Cheryl Klein |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 2016-09-06 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0393292258 |
This master class in writing children’s and young adult novels will teach you everything you need to know to write and publish a great book. The best children’s and young adult novels take readers on wonderful outward adventures and stirring inward journeys. In The Magic Words, editor Cheryl B. Klein guides writers on an enjoyable and practical-minded voyage of their own, from developing a saleable premise for a novel to finding a dream agent. She delves deep into the major elements of fiction—intention, character, plot, and voice—while addressing important topics like diversity, world-building, and the differences between middle-grade and YA novels. In addition, the book’s exercises, questions, and straightforward rules of thumb help writers apply these insights to their own creative works. With its generous tone and useful tools for story analysis and revision, The Magic Words is an essential handbook for writers of children’s and young adult fiction.
| Author | : Yee-Lum Mak |
| Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
| Total Pages | : 62 |
| Release | : 2016-10-11 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 1452163111 |
Discover words to surprise, delight, and enamor. Learn terms for the sunlight that filters through the leaves of trees, for dancing awkwardly but with relish, and for the look shared by two people who each wish the other would speak first. Other-Wordly is an irresistible ebook for lovers of words and those lost for words alike.
| Author | : Albert Pike |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 202 |
| Release | : 2018-08-28 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781781071946 |
Masonry is permeated with powerful verbal and pictorial symbolism that arouses the mental, spiritual and intellectual life. One of the treasures of the SJ USA Supreme Council's Archives at the House of the Temple in Washington, D.C., is Albert Pike's manuscript of The Book of the Words. The book was originally printed, in an edition limited to 150 copies, in 1874. This remarkable study is an exploration of the symbolic words in Freemasonry. It gives the correct spelling of, and analyzes all the "significant words" in the Scottish Rite from the 1st through the 30th degrees inclusive. Pike explores and explains their origin (Hebrew, Samaritan, Phoenician and English), meaning, symbolism and relevance to the degrees and gives his insights. In addition to being an etymological dictionary Pike explains why any given word was chosen for a given degree, thereby revealing the hidden symbolism of each word.
| Author | : Valerie Worth |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : |
The author has created from her studies these poems that are more than poems: instructions, incantations, and spells for every purpose. This is the magick incarnate in each of us who knows the power that is within.
