商品簡介
An ingeniously handy guide to help you transform chew into masticate, rainy into pluvianA-or antediluvian into plain old old.
Attorney James Snyder didnA't set out to write a book about words. But one day he looked up the word animadversion. The definition said it means the same thing as aspersion. He wasnA't quite sure what that meant, so he looked it up. It meant the same thing as slander. At last he was getting somewhereA- and he stumbled upon an inconvenient truth about dictionaries: If you donA't know big words, they sometimes arenA't much help.
So Snyder started collecting what he calls one-word definitionsA-simple words for fancy ones, and fancy words for simple ones. So whether youA're a penster (writer) looking for the right palabra (word), or just a solecistic (ungrammatical) malingerer (faker) trying to gasconade (show off ) to your gormless (stupid) yokemates (co-workers), this handy and engaging reference presents the right word for any occasion.
作者簡介
James E. Snyder, Jr., is an attorney in private practice.
