The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our Sumptuous Lexicon
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Book Description
Pretty little novelty vocabulary books often provide unimaginative, unpoetic definitions for strange and beautiful words that one could never imagine actually using in a sentence. Karen Elizabeth Gordon's Disheveled Dictionary is quite the opposite. Gordon offers up usable if somewhat underused words (such as "amplitude," "crepuscular," "maudlin," and "recidivistic"), many of which we're not quite... More
Book Information
Publisher | Mariner Books |
Binding | Paperback (7 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 176 |
ISBN-10 | 0618381961 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0618381968 |
Publication Date | 09/19/2003 |
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