Word Lists category: 182 books
Just My Typo
From "Sinning with the Choir" to "the Untied States"
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
**A charming collection of typographical errors, slips of the pen, and embarrassing misprints, Just My Typo celebrates the awful and the sublime mistakes that riddle our feeble human attempts at communication.
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It's time to accept the truth: typos are everywhere. Legal documents are riddled with...
by Mignon Fogarty
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Millions of people around the world communicate better thanks to Mignon Fogarty, aka Grammar Girl, whose top-rated weekly grammar podcast has been downloaded more than 30 million times. After realizing her fans were asking the same questions over and over, Mignon decided to focus her attention on...
ACT Test Prep Intermediate Vocabulary Review--Exambusters Flash Cards--Workbook 2 of 13
ACT Exam Study Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
"ACT Prep Flashcard Workbook 2: VOCABULARY-Intermediate" 500 frequently tested ACT words every high school student should know. Perfect for anyone who wants to enrich their vocabulary! Improve your reading comprehension and conversation. Includes sample sentence, part of speech, pronunciation, succinct,...
by Mignon Fogarty
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Millions of people around the world communicate better thanks to Mignon Fogarty, aka Grammar Girl, whose top-rated weekly grammar podcast has been downloaded more than 30 million times. Now she's turning her attention to improving our vocabulary—one word at a time—with Grammar Girl's 101 Words...
by Bill Bryson
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2002
One of the English language’s most skilled and beloved writers guides us all toward precise, mistake-free usage.
As usual Bill Bryson says it best: “English is a dazzlingly idiosyncratic tongue, full of quirks and irregularities that often seem willfully at odds with logic and common sense....
Legal Words You Should Know
Over 1,000 Essential Terms to Understand Contracts, Wills, and the Legal System
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2009
Every day, people find themselves in legal situations. Mortgages are put in place, attorneys draw up wills, and credit cards are set up all the time. However, how many people actually understood the legal contracts they were signing? There's no excuse for being ignorant of the law when it comes to...
by John Lloyd, Jon Canter
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
A liff is a familiar object or experience that English has no word for. Afterliff, its long-awaited sequel, corrects this disgraceful oversight by recycling the names found on signposts.
This brilliant successor to Douglas Adams' and John Lloyd's 1983 classic The Meaning of Liff features over...
The Big Book Of Words You Should Know To Sound Smart
A Guide for Aspiring Intellectuals
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
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...
Letter Perfect
The Marvelous History of Our Alphabet From A to Z
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A fun, lively, and learned excursion into the alphabet—and cultural history.
Letters are tangible language. Joining together in endless combinations to actually show speech, letters convey our messages and tell our stories. While we encounter these tiny shapes hundreds of times a day, we...
SAT Test Prep College Prep Vocabulary 3 Review--Exambusters Flash Cards--Workbook 3 of 9
SAT Exam Study Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
"SAT Prep Flashcard Workbook 3: COLLEGE PREP VOCABULARY" 350 frequently tested SAT words every college freshman should know. Perfect for anyone who wants to enrich their vocabulary! Improve your reading comprehension and conversation. Includes sample sentence, part of speech, pronunciation, succinct,...
The Meaning of Tingo
and Other Extraordinary Words from Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2007
Did you know that in Hungary, pigs go rof-rof-rof, but in Japan they go boo boo boo? That there’s apparently the need in Bolivia for a word that means "I was rather too drunk last night but it was all their fault"? Adam Jacot de Boinod's book on extraordinary words from around the world...
How to Sound Really Clever
600 Words You Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
How to Sound Really Clever explains and illustrates over 600 words that can outfox us, such as 'condign', 'Zelig-like' and 'agitprop'. This is the sequel to the successful How to Sound Clever (2010) which taught you 600 words you really ought to know but haven't had the time to look up in the dictionary.
Each...
ZOUNDS!
A Browser's Dictionary of Interjections
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
From Geronimo! to gesundheit to haminahamina to holy mackerel, and from abracadabra to zoinks, Mark Dunn and Sergio Aragonés show you interjections like you've never seen them before.
Often thought of as unnecessary verbal fringe or simply linguistic decoration, interjections (ahem, howdy,...
Wrath
A Dictionary for the Enraged
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
The Seven Deadly Sins have sliced up the dictionary and taken what's theirs. No one vice is too greedy as each volume prides itself on having more than 500 entries. Word lovers will lust after these richly packaged volumes--and once you've collected all seven, you'll be the envy of all your friends.
Wrath:...