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The Dictionary of Difficult Words: With more than 400 perplexing words to test your wits!

The Dictionary of Difficult Words: With more than 400 perplexing words to test your wits!

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What is a bumbershoot? Or a moonbow? And what does it mean when someone absquatulates...? Find out all this and more in
The Dictionary of Difficult Words
.
Test your knowledge with
more than 400 words to amaze, confuse, and inspire budding wordsmiths
(and adults). All of the words featured in this book are difficult to spell, hard to say, and their meanings are obscure to most children (and most adults)! You can master them with the
simple, easy-to-understand definitions and pronunciations written by lexicographer
(yes, that's in there too!) Jane Solomon.
Fun, colorful illustrations
add whimsy to the pages.
Some jobbernowls say dictionaries are anachronistic, or even obsolete, but it's kenspeckle to real bibliophiles that those vociferous ninnyhammers are just metagrobolised by the plethora of portmanteaus, neologisms, and jargon they offer. Next time you find yourself wrangling with one of these ultracrepidarians, no need to imagineer a sockdolager: just show them this book.
This captivating dictionary
celebrates the beauty of the English language
for family trivia time spent around the printed page.
What is a bumbershoot? Or a moonbow? And what does it mean when someone absquatulates...? Find out all this and more in
The Dictionary of Difficult Words
.
Test your knowledge with
more than 400 words to amaze, confuse, and inspire budding wordsmiths
(and adults). All of the words featured in this book are difficult to spell, hard to say, and their meanings are obscure to most children (and most adults)! You can master them with the
simple, easy-to-understand definitions and pronunciations written by lexicographer
(yes, that's in there too!) Jane Solomon.
Fun, colorful illustrations
add whimsy to the pages.
Some jobbernowls say dictionaries are anachronistic, or even obsolete, but it's kenspeckle to real bibliophiles that those vociferous ninnyhammers are just metagrobolised by the plethora of portmanteaus, neologisms, and jargon they offer. Next time you find yourself wrangling with one of these ultracrepidarians, no need to imagineer a sockdolager: just show them this book.
This captivating dictionary
celebrates the beauty of the English language
for family trivia time spent around the printed page.

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