Word for Word : Transform Your Vocabulary From Pedestrian to Precocious* in an Instant (*or From Sophisticated to Straightforward)

An ingeniously handy guide to help you transform chew into masticate, rainy into pluvian -or antediluvian into plain old old . Attorney James Snyder didn't set out to write a book about words. But one day he looked up the word animadversion. The definition said it means the same thing as aspersion. He wasn't quite sure what that meant, so he looked it up. It meant the same thing as slander. At last he was getting somewhere- and he stumbled upon an inconvenient truth about dictionaries: If you don't know big words, they sometimes aren't much help. So Snyder started collecting what he calls one-word definitions-simple words for fancy ones, and fancy words for simple ones. So whether you're a penster (writer) looking for the right palabra (word), or just a solecistic (ungrammatical) malingerer (faker) trying to gasconade (show off ) to your gormless (stupid) yokemates (co-workers), this handy and engaging reference presents the right word for any occasion. Cover Page......Page 1 Title Page......Page 6 Copyright Page......Page 7 Dedication Page......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 10 Contents......Page 12 Preface......Page 16 Part One: Complex Words to Common Words......Page 22 A: Abditive to Axiomatic......Page 24 B: Bacchanalian to Byssaceous......Page 32 C: Cabal to Cynosure......Page 36 D: Dactyl to Dysphoria......Page 44 E: Ebullition to Extravasate......Page 48 F: Facetious to Fustigate......Page 54 G: Gainsay to Gyrose......Page 58 H: Habiliment to Hypoxemia......Page 60 I: Iatrogenic to Ithypallic......Page 64 J: Jactation to Juxtaposed......Page 70 K: Karyogamy to Kwaiken......Page 72 L: Labefaction to Lysis......Page 74 M: Macabre to Mythomania......Page 78 N: Narcissism to Nympholepsy......Page 82 O: Obdurate to Ozostomia......Page 84 P: Pachydermatous to Pyrotic......Page 88 Q: Quab to Quotidian......Page 96 R: Racinage to Rutilant......Page 98 S: Sabulous to Systole......Page 102 T: Taas to Tyro......Page 108 U: Ubiquitous to Uxorious......Page 112 V: Vacuous to Vulpine......Page 114 W: Waggery to Wraith......Page 116 X: Xanthic to Xylose......Page 118 Y: Yammer to Yurt......Page 120 Z: Zabernism to Zymurgy......Page 122 Part Two: Common Words to Complex Words......Page 124 a: Abnormal to Axis......Page 126 b: Backward to Buying......Page 132 c: Callous to Customary......Page 136 d: Dagger to Dying......Page 142 e: Eagerness to Extravagant......Page 148 f: Faithlessness to Fuss......Page 152 g: Gallery to Gunfire......Page 156 h: Habitual to Hypnotism......Page 158 i: Ideal to Itinerant......Page 162 j: Jaunty to Jumble......Page 166 k: Kill to Knowingly......Page 168 l: Laborious to Lying......Page 170 m: Magic to Mystical......Page 174 n: Nagger to Nun......Page 178 o: Obesity to Overweight......Page 180 p: Pacify to Puzzling......Page 182 q: Quadrant to Quickening......Page 188 r: Racism to Rustic......Page 190 s: Sacrifice to Systematist......Page 194 t: Tact to Typical......Page 204 u: Unauthorized to Usefulness......Page 208 v: Vagrant to Vulgarity......Page 212 w: Wager to Writer......Page 214 x: Xed to X-ray......Page 218 y: Yahoo to Youthful......Page 220 z: Zealous to Zoned......Page 222 An ingeniously handy guide to help one transform "chew" into "masticate, rainy into pluvian, and antediluvian into plain old old, this engaging, easy-to-use reference presents the right word for any occasion