The Words You Should Know To Sound Smart

Author : Robert W Bly
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1598698869
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Words You Should Know to Sound Smart written by Robert W Bly and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-04-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A togue-in-cheek guide to vocabulary enhancement introduces words to be slipped into everyday conversation, including autodidactic, descant, and disestablishmentarianism.

Author : Robert W Bly
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1440591067
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big Book Of Words You Should Know To Sound Smart written by Robert W Bly and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A dictionary of "big and intellectual" words"--

Author : Editors of Editors of the American Heritage Di
Publisher : Collins Reference
ISBN 13 : 9780544913646
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 100 Words to Make You Sound Smart written by Editors of Editors of the American Heritage Di and published by Collins Reference. This book was released on 2017-02-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A newly rejacketed edition of the best-selling title in the 100 Words series.

Author : Peter Archer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1440541078
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 500 Foreign Words & Phrases You Should Know to Sound Smart written by Peter Archer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dazzle with your command of belle-lettres! Like a true sophisticate, you'd like to toss out casual bon mots to enliven your conversation. You'd like to float through cocktail parties offering your guests crudités and hors d'oeuvres, toasting to the prevailing Weltgeist and speculating on who's having an affaire de coeur. But first you need to know what those words mean. Here's a guide to declaiming like an intellectual in a foreign language. More than 500 of the most commonly used foreign words and phrases that enhance our language and make us sound sophisticated have been translated into English, along with a pronunciation guide and a sample sentence showing you how to use them. In addition, you'll find quotations in other languages, which will impress everyone with your erudition and experiencia del mundo. All this together with a plethora of minutae, spicing the entries with an exquisite mélange of information that heightens their je ne sais quoi. So get busy dotting your conversation with these words and phrases. Remember, Experientia docet.

Author : Hubert van den Bergh
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408125099
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Sound Clever written by Hubert van den Bergh and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fun and informative guide to some of the more obscure, curious and tricky words in the English language.

Author : David Olsen
Publisher : Adams Media
ISBN 13 : 9781605501390
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big Book of Words You Should Know written by David Olsen and published by Adams Media. This book was released on 2009-01-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you know what "quatrefoil" and "impolitic" mean? What about "halcyon" or "narcolepsy"? This book is a handy, easy-to-read reference guide to the proper parlance for any situation. In this book you will find: Words You Absolutely Should Know (covert, exonerate, perimeter); Words You Should Know But Probably Don't (dour, incendiary, scintilla); Words Most People Don't Know (schlimazel, thaumaturgy, epergne); Words You Should Know to Sound Overeducated (ad infinitum, nugatory, garrulity); Words You Probably Shouldn't Know (priapic, damnatory, labia majora); and more. Whether writing an essay, studying for a test, or trying to impress friends, family, and fellow cocktail party guests with their prolixity, you will achieve magniloquence, ebullience, and flights of rhetorical brilliance.

Author : Mjf Books
Publisher : M J F Books
ISBN 13 : 9781567313642
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Sound Smart written by Mjf Books and published by M J F Books. This book was released on 2000-06 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert W. Bly
Publisher : Fall River Press
ISBN 13 : 9781435165472
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1,200 Words You Should Know to Sound Smart written by Robert W. Bly and published by Fall River Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wilfred John Funk
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 067174349X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary written by Wilfred John Funk and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1991-03-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thirty-day vocabulary building program which includes a pronunciation guide and word origins and histories.

Author : Charles De Wolf
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1568364180
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Sound Intelligent in Japanese written by Charles De Wolf and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-08-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For every student, a time eventually comes when basic grammar is no longer the problem. You can say a few words about the weather, or the fact that, yes, you are feeling hungry, or explain that you are going out for the day—and actually be understood. Beyond that, however, the going gets tough. You cannot make pertinent comments about philosophy, politics, art, science, law, or business — simply because you lack the necessary vocabulary. In fact, you may not be able to say that you are interested in "philosophy" at all, because you don't know the Japanese word for it. How do you go about acquiring this specialized vocabulary (most of which consists of kanji compounds)? Usually by spending hundreds of hours reading Japanese books or picking through a dictionary. This book is an attempt to shorten that process by collecting a good number of the more commonly used key words from crucial areas of human endeavor. Now, without spending years mastering the written language, you can occasionally come up with the right word at the right moment in a conversation that is striving toward comprehensibility. This can even be done by students who do not have a strong grasp of kanji, for they can learn the words as sounds. The areas covered in the book are ideas and theories; philosophy and religion; politics and government; the fine arts, humanities, and social sciences; science and technology; law and justice; and business and economics. This division allows the student to go the category where vocabulary is needed and learn the key words given there, rather than floundering around in a dictionary and hoping one has found what is needed. A further advantage of this arrangement is that certain kanji tend to be repeated over and over in certain categories: for example, the kanji read "gaku" in the science section of the book. This type of repetition allows the student to get a feeling for certain kanji and usages. Beginning students can pick up individual words and put them in sentences of their own making, no matter how simple, and advanced students can get a better understanding of context by reading the sample sentences in the book. Since no one, even in their native tongue, can hope to be proficient in every field, advance students can quickly pick up key words in areas they are unfamiliar with. Previously published in the Power Japanese series under the same title.