Big Dictionary: The Only Dictionary You Need - Softcover

Lorren Daro Productions

9780970660800: Big Dictionary: The Only Dictionary You Need

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ISBN 10: 0970660804 ISBN 13: 9780970660800

Publisher: Loreen Daro Productions, 2001

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The BIG Dictionary is the first-ever vest-pocket, user-friendly, portable equivalent of a huge, unabridged dictionary.

It lists only those commonly-used words you go to a dictionary to look up.

The BIG Dictionary contains all the words a modern adult needs to know in order to build a large, comprehensive, and usable vocabulary.

It omits obscure, strange and rarely-used words, and, most importantly, it leaves out the words most people already know.

Everyone -- from the most highly-educated to the newest ESL student -- will find The BIG Dictionary indispensable for defining those advanced and complex words we come across every day -- words we think we know, but often do not.

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About the Author

Loren Daro was born in West Los Angeles and received a Master's Degree in Humanities and Classical Literature from UCLA in 1960. He has been a successful literary agent for the past twenty years, and has been developing this book project for an equal number of years. It took two years to write, and all definitions were vetted by a professional lexicographer for correctness.

From the Inside Flap

How many times have we come across words in our daily reading that baffle us? Not the strange, weird or obscure, but the FAMILIAR.

They are words many of us are afraid to admit, even to ourselves, we cannot clearly define, and if we can't define them, we can't use them.

Difficult words can often be defined from their context, but context alone seldom provides a clear enough definition for a person to add that word to their working vocabulary. The result is that most people can read and comprehend many more words than they can speak or write. But combine context with a brief, clear definition from The BIG Dictionary, and the word will be firmly placed in a person's verbal arsenal.

Words like: hegemony, avuncular, polemic, sanguine, eclectic, lachrymose, egregious, dilatory, recondite, obtuse....

The BIG Dictionary is the first-ever, handy, vest-pocket-size book of words like these, with concise definitions, parts-of-speech, and phonetic pronunciations only when required. NOTHING ELSE.

Why not just consult a standard dictionary? Because they all overflow with the common, ordinary words we already know. In this book, those words have been left out, and more advanced ones have taken their place.

Yes, there are books out there on "power words" and "words you need to know, " but none is exclusively devoted to advanced and complex words in COMMON USAGE by literate adults.

The BIG Dictionary is the product of twenty years of study on this subject. It gathers over five thousand select words into a slim, uniquely-formatted, and eminently portable paperback that everyone -- from the newest ESL student, to the most highly educated -- will find truly indispensable.

The BIG Dictionary can be easily carried from desk to nightstand, from briefcase to pocket or purse, with discretion, privacy and ease. It contains all those words a modern adult needs to know in order to aquire a large, comprehensive and USABLE vocabulary, and it has not been censored or dumbed-down for politically-correct purposes. Never showing off, it's always there to serve.

The need for a strong and diverse vocabulary has evolved from a pursuit for dilettantes and academics a few years ago, to an essential skill for career advancement today. It is no longer WORD-PLAY, but WORD-WORK. The BIG Dictionary is an ergonomic, industrial-strength tool for grownups to get that work done.

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