The Thinker's Thesaurus

Sophisticated Alternatives to Common Words

Peter E. Meltzer

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Norton
04 September 2015

Thesauri; Reference

This entertaining and informative reference book features sophisticated and surprising alternatives to common words together with guides to usage. Avoiding traditional thesauruses' mundane synonym choices, Peter E. Meltzer puts each word—whether it's protrepic, apostrophise, iracund or emulous—in context.

By: Peter E. Meltzer
Imprint: Norton
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Expanded Third Edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 48mm
Weight: 1.161kg
ISBN: 9780393351255
ISBN 10: 0393351254
Pages: 720
Publication Date: 04 September 2015
Audience: General/trade , General/trade , ELT Advanced , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Peter E. Meltzer, the author of the best-selling The Thinker's Thesaurus and So You Think You Know Baseball?, is an attorney and a former professor at Rutgers University School of Law.

Reviews for The Thinker's Thesaurus: Sophisticated Alternatives to Common Words

This book will lend hours of pleasure-as well as help you preserve the highest layers of the English vocabulary. -- John McWhorter, author of The Language Hoax A million dollars' worth of fifty-cent words. -- Erin McKean, editor, Verbatim Delves into the mostly untapped reservoir of the English lexicon, offering readers more than top-of-mind word choices.