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A Cure for the Common Word: Remedy Your Tired Vocabulary with 3,000 + Vibrant Alternatives to the Most Overused Words - K. D. Sullivan
A Cure for the Common Word: Remedy Your Tired Vocabulary with 3,000 + Vibrant Alternatives to the Most Overused Words
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Make your ailing vocabulary go from merely good to exceptionally splendid and stupendous!Your brain holds an impressive vocabulary of more than 20,000 words, but chances are you only use a small fraction of them. That fraction is usually filled with worn-out oldies that have lost their impact,... show more
Make your ailing vocabulary go from merely good to exceptionally splendid and stupendous!Your brain holds an impressive vocabulary of more than 20,000 words, but chances are you only use a small fraction of them. That fraction is usually filled with worn-out oldies that have lost their impact, such as interesting, good, and nice... Now you can rejuvenate your vocabulary and rehab your verbal skills with this guide for using language to communicate more effectively in writing and speech.Inside, you'll find more than thirty alternatives for each of the one hundred most commonly overused words in the English language. Along with a list of synonyms, each common word comes with definitions, sample sentences, witty quotes, explanations of why the word fails to communicate, and much more.
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Format: ebook
ISBN: 9780071493307 (0071493301)
ASIN: 9780071493307
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Edition language: English
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3.0 A Cure for the Common Word: Remedy Your Tired Vocabulary with 3,000 + Vibrant Alternatives to the Most Overused Words
Some might think this is a dumbed down thesaurus for teens, but I liked it. It has the words you might fall back on when you're lazy (like the notorious "nice" and the overused and abused "awesome"), and provides alternatives that still sound natural. (When some people use the thesaurus there are wo...
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