The Big Book Of Words You Should Know To Sound Smart: A Guide for Aspiring Intellectuals

Bly, Robert W

ISBN 10: 1440591067 / ISBN 13: 9781440591068

Published by Adams Media, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Big Book Of Words You Should Know To Sound Smart: A Guide for Aspiring Intellectuals
• Publisher: Adams Media
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1440591067
• ISBN 13: 9781440591068
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Robert W. Bly, a full-time freelance writer since 1982, is the author of over eighty-five books, including The Ultimate Unauthorized Star Trek Quiz Book and The Science in Science Fiction. Bly holds a BS in chemical engineering from the University of Rochester and has published more than one hundred articles in numerous periodicals, including Cosmopolitan and Writer’s Digest.