Smart Words: Vocabulary for the Erudite

by Mim Harrison

Book Overview

How and where to use 500 of the words that make you sound more cultured, worldly, and downright smart.

Whoever said sounding smart had to be painful? It's all in how you acquire the "ten-dollar words" of English. Smart Words makes fast and smooth learning of words such as prelapsarian, sedulous, sybaritic and draconian. How? By sticking to ultra-simple definitions, then offering a memorable--and often...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399534644
• ISBN13: 9780399534645
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.4" x 8.0"