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Use this book in two ways-simply pick it up and begin reading it anywhere-you'll find fascinating words on every page or look up a specific word or phrase to find its alternatives, pronunciation and the origin if it is known. Cool, beautiful, interesting, and bizarre words and even some you may have never known existed. Got a particular word in mind? Look up its definition in the "Reversicon" or reverse dictionary at the end of the book.

While some of the words are a bit over-the-top, you'll find others fit quite nicely in your sentence. For example, you want to describe your character jostling a baby on his knees-a handy word would be "dandle." Or you're writing a nonfiction article about the war in Afghanistan and you want to describe an obtrusively puritanical person censoriously hostile to minor vices and popular amusements. The word "wowser" fits perfectly as in "Members of Afghanistan's Taliban government were, so to speak, wowsers on steroids, banning even kite flying as an unacceptable distraction from righteousness."

With a sumptuous royal purple velvet cover and gilded-in-gold title, this is a book for writers and all language lovers searching for the perfect word instead of using something common and ordinary.