This entertaining and informative reference book features sophisticated and surprising alternatives to common words together with guides to usage. Avoiding traditional thesauruses' mundane synonym choices, Peter E. Meltzer puts each word-whether it's protrepic, apostrophise, iracund or emulous-in context.

About the Author
Peter E. Meltzer, the author of the best-selling The Thinker's Thesaurus and So You Think You Know Baseball?, is an attorney and a former professor at Rutgers University School of Law.

Reviews
"This book will lend hours of pleasure-as well as help you preserve the highest layers of the English vocabulary." -- John McWhorter, author of The Language Hoax "A million dollars' worth of fifty-cent words." -- Erin McKean, editor, Verbatim "Delves into the mostly untapped reservoir of the English lexicon, offering readers more than top-of-mind word choices."



Book Information
ISBN 9780393351255
Author Peter E. Meltzer
Format Paperback
Page Count 720
Imprint WW Norton & Co
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 1161g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 178mm * 48mm