Better Vocabulary in 30 Minutes a Day offers a comprehensive method for adding a more impressive list of words to your everyday speech and how to use them effortlessly and accurately. Besides giving definitions, this invaluable guide provides roots, stems, and elements of words so that you can increase your vocabulary with thousands of new words. Sprinkled throughout the book are fascinating stories about words and origins.
"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.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.
If your skill with words isn't up to scratch, you may find yourself sidelined or ignored at work and elsewhere. You create an impression with what you write, and a weak or incorrect vocabulary is a serious liability. Awesome Vocabulary offers a painless way to build an exceptional vocabulary.Readers will discover comprehensive, useful lists of words and exercises focused on improving word choices.
They'll also learn:
* Tricks to reveal the meaning of new words
* Memory devices to help distinguish between similar words
* The difference between using words to impress and using words that make their meanings clear
* Examples of writing--correct and incorrect, attractive and unlovely, persuasive and off-putting--that clearly show the right stuff and how to amend the wrong stuff
* The secret to "balanced prose": the Rule of Three
* Avoiding repetition and redundancy
* The proper vocabulary for the proper occasion: business letters, e-mails, and casual conversation
* Words to avoid at all costs Awesome Vocabulary is the book for anyone who never wants to fumble for the correct word, and all readers who wants to build on their already impressive lexicon.
