Another Word A Day

Author : Anu Garg
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-21
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780470324752

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Another Word A Day by Anu Garg Pdf

A smorgasbord of surprising, obscure, and exotic words In this delightful encore to the national bestseller A Word A Day, Anu Garg, the founder of the wildly popular A Word A Day Web site (wordsmith.org), presents an all-new collection of unusual, intriguing words and real-life anecdotes that will thrill writers, scholars, and word buffs everywhere. Another Word A Day celebrates the English language in all its quirkiness, grandeur, and fun, and features new chapters ranging from "Words Formed Erroneously" and "Red-Herring Words" to "Kangaroo Words," "Discover the Theme," and "What Does That Company Name Mean?" In them, you'll find a treasure trove of curious and compelling words, including agelast, dragoman, mittimus, nyctalopia, quacksalver, scission, tattersall, and zugzwang. Each entry includes a concise definition, etymology, and usage example, interspersed with illuminating quotations. Praise for a word a day "Anu Garg's many readers await their A Word A Day rations hungrily. Now at last here's a feast for them and other verbivores. Eat up!" --Barbara Wallraff, Senior Editor at The Atlantic Monthly and author of Word Court "AWADies will be familiar with Anu Garg's refreshing approach to words: words are fun and they have fascinating histories." --John Simpson, Chief Editor, Oxford English Dictionary

Author : Anu Garg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : English language
ISBN : 0471778788

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Another Word a Day by Anu Garg Pdf

An all-new collection of unusual and intriguing words, drawn from the author's beloved e-mail newsletter In 1994, Anu Garg began A Word A Day (AWAD), a free e-mail service that delivers a new word every weekday, accompanied by a definition, etymology, sample usage, and commentary. Each week has a different theme, and at the end of the week, Garg sends out a newsletter with enthusiastic feedback from the more than half-million AWAD subscribers around the world. Now, in this encore to the national bestseller A Word A Day, Garg offers 52 new delightfully themed chapters-ranging from 'Words Formed Erroneously' and 'Words of Horse-related Origins' to 'Words Borrowed from Yiddish' and 'Red-Herring Words.' In them, readers will discover a treasure trove of 260 curious and compelling new words, including agelast, bissextile, cockamamie, cumshaw, disembogue, dragoman, fartlek, manitou, mittimus, nyctalopia, quacksalver, scission, sennight, tattersall, yegg, zaftig, and zugzwang. For A Word A Day subscribers and word buffs everywhere, this book will make the perfect gift. Anu Garg (Seattle, WA) is the founder of Wordsmith.org, a community of some 600,000 word lovers in 200 countries. The author of A Word A Day (0-471-23023-4), he writes about language-related issues for magazines and newspapers and speaks internationally.

Author : Merriam-Webster, Inc
Publisher : Merriam-Webster Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0877798508

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The Merriam-Webster Thesaurus by Merriam-Webster, Inc Pdf

'The Merriam-Webster Thesaurus' offers over 157,000 synonyms, antonyms, related and contrasted words and idioms, all alphabetically organised with brief definitions of shared meanings.

Author : Anu Garg
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-21
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781118039687

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A Word A Day by Anu Garg Pdf

"Anu Garg's many readers await their A Word A Day rations hungrily. Now at last here's a feast for them and other verbivores. Eat up!" -Barbara Wallraff Senior Editor at The Atlantic Monthly and author of Word Court Praise for A Word a Day "AWADies will be familiar with Anu Garg's refreshing approach to words: words are fun and they have fascinating histories. The people who use them have curious stories to tell too, and this collection incorporates some of the correspondence received by the editors at the AWAD site, from advice on how to outsmart your opponent in a duel (or even a truel) to a cluster of your favorite mondegreens." -John Simpson, Chief Editor, Oxford English Dictionary "A banquet of words! Feast and be nourished!" -Richard Lederer, author of The Miracle of Language Written by the founder of the wildly popular A Word A Day Web site (www.wordsmith.org), this collection of unusual, obscure, and exotic English words will delight writers, scholars, crossword puzzlers, and word buffs of every ilk. The words are grouped in intriguing categories that range from "Portmanteaux" to "Words That Make the Spell-Checker Ineffective." each entry includes a concise definition, etymology, and usage example-and many feature fascinating and hilarious commentaries by A Word A Day subscribers and the authors.

Author : Brigit Dermott
Publisher : Learning Express (NY)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : English language
ISBN : 157685423X

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501 Synonym & Antonym Questions by Brigit Dermott Pdf

501 Synonyms and Antonym Questions is designed to help students prepare for the verbal sections of most assessment and entrance exams. The book increases a student's vocabulary and refines their knowledge of words, bringing about higher standardized test scores and more effective verbal and written communication. Questions in this book prepare students for the synonym and antonym problems found on most standardized tests-including high school entrance exams, the SAT, civil service exams, and the GRE. The book increases in difficulty as students move through each exercise. All answers are explained, featuring short definitions and terms that clarify word meanings and their opposites for effective studying and positive reinforcement.

Author : Kate Woodford,Guy Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1550 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521824230

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Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary by Kate Woodford,Guy Jackson Pdf

The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary is the ideal dictionary for advanced EFL/ESL learners. Easy to use and with a great CD-ROM - the perfect learner's dictionary for exam success. First published as the Cambridge International Dictionary of English, this new edition has been completely updated and redesigned. - References to over 170,000 words, phrases and examples explained in clear and natural English - All the important new words that have come into the language (e.g. dirty bomb, lairy, 9/11, clickable) - Over 200 'Common Learner Error' notes, based on the Cambridge Learner Corpus from Cambridge ESOL exams Plus, on the CD-ROM: - SMART thesaurus - lets you find all the words with the same meaning - QUICKfind - automatically looks up words while you are working on-screen - SUPERwrite - tools for advanced writing, giving help with grammar and collocation - Hear and practise all the words.

Author : John Camden Hotten
Publisher : London : Chatto and Windus
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : English language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004988478

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The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal by John Camden Hotten Pdf

Author : Jasmine Warga
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780062747822

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Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga Pdf

New York Times bestseller and Newbery Honor Book! A gorgeously written, hopeful middle grade novel in verse about a young girl who must leave Syria to move to the United States, perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Aisha Saeed. Jude never thought she’d be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives. At first, everything in America seems too fast and too loud. The American movies that Jude has always loved haven’t quite prepared her for starting school in the US—and her new label of “Middle Eastern,” an identity she’s never known before. But this life also brings unexpected surprises—there are new friends, a whole new family, and a school musical that Jude might just try out for. Maybe America, too, is a place where Jude can be seen as she really is. This lyrical, life-affirming story is about losing and finding home and, most importantly, finding yourself.

Author : Tim Cameron
Publisher : Charisma Media
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781629982212

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The Forty-Day Word Fast by Tim Cameron Pdf

The Forty-Day Word Fast focuses on several biblically sound mechanisms to help you change your words and your life. Not only will your vocabulary change, your heart also will be transformed in just forty days.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Learning Express (NY)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Vocabulary
ISBN : 1576856747

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Word Power in 15 Minutes a Day by Anonim Pdf

Offers easy-to-understand lessons and fun factoids that enable students to enrich their vocabularies.

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1828
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023671060

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A Dictionary of the English Language. By Samuel Johnson, LL.D., and John Walker. With the pronuntiation simplified ... and the addition of several thousand words. By R. S. Jameson. Second edition, revised and corrected by Samuel Johnson Pdf

Author : John Koenig
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781501153662

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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “It’s undeniably thrilling to find words for our strangest feelings…Koenig casts light into lonely corners of human experience…An enchanting book. “ —The Washington Post A truly original book in every sense of the word, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows poetically defines emotions that we all feel but don’t have the words to express—until now. Have you ever wondered about the lives of each person you pass on the street, realizing that everyone is the main character in their own story, each living a life as vivid and complex as your own? That feeling has a name: “sonder.” Or maybe you’ve watched a thunderstorm roll in and felt a primal hunger for disaster, hoping it would shake up your life. That’s called “lachesism.” Or you were looking through old photos and felt a pang of nostalgia for a time you’ve never actually experienced. That’s “anemoia.” If you’ve never heard of these terms before, that’s because they didn’t exist until John Koenig set out to fill the gaps in our language of emotion. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows “creates beautiful new words that we need but do not yet have,” says John Green, bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars. By turns poignant, relatable, and mind-bending, the definitions include whimsical etymologies drawn from languages around the world, interspersed with otherworldly collages and lyrical essays that explore forgotten corners of the human condition—from “astrophe,” the longing to explore beyond the planet Earth, to “zenosyne,” the sense that time keeps getting faster. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is for anyone who enjoys a shift in perspective, pondering the ineffable feelings that make up our lives. With a gorgeous package and beautiful illustrations throughout, this is the perfect gift for creatives, word nerds, and human beings everywhere.

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1820
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022442082

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A Dictionary of the English Language ... Abridged from the Rev. H. J. Todd's ... enlarged quarto edition, by A. Chalmers by Samuel Johnson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015051610437

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The World Book Encyclopedia by Anonim Pdf

An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.

Author : Merriam-Webster, Inc
Publisher : Merriam-Webster
Page : 1184 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0877793700

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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus by Merriam-Webster, Inc Pdf

Find the right word every time with this indispensable guide! Concise definitions pinpoint meanings shared by synonyms. More than 275,000 word choices, examples, and explanations. Sample sentences and phrases for each synonym at its own entry clarify how words are used in context. Alphabetical lists may also include related words, idiomatic phrases, near antonyms, and antonyms. A perfect companion to the best-selling Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Ed.