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Expand your vocabulary across diverse subjects effectively.
If you're feeling your conversations could use some spicing up with fresh and perhaps more sophisticated words, then this could be an excellent book for you. It's especially handy if you're eager to impress in a professional setting or just keen on personal linguistic enhancement. Plus, it's laid out in a way that's both informative and accessible, not to mention it tackles a broad range of topics.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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ISBN: 9780028639970
Authors:
Paul McFedries
Publisher: Alpha
Date of Publication: 2001-05-07
Format: Paperback
Related Collections:
Personal Development
Goodreads rating: 4.2
(rated by 5 readers)
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You know your vocabulary could use a little—or a lot of—improvement. You’ve got strong feelings on plenty of topics—you just can’t find the words to describe them! Don’t get tongue-tied! The Complete Idiot’s Guide to a Smart Vocabulary will make you master of a multitudinous lexicon of lingo, so you’ll never again be thwarted by a lack of conversational legerdemain. In this guide, you'll find definitions of more than 1,000 words, arranged by subject—from business buzzwords to legal lingo, fun quizzes to help you review what you’ve learned, simple translations of the most commonly used foreign words, names of things you didn’t know had names, and other fun words.
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Expand your vocabulary across diverse subjects effectively.
If you're feeling your conversations could use some spicing up with fresh and perhaps more sophisticated words, then this could be an excellent book for you. It's especially handy if you're eager to impress in a professional setting or just keen on personal linguistic enhancement. Plus, it's laid out in a way that's both informative and accessible, not to mention it tackles a broad range of topics.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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