THE MELLIFLUOUS BOOK OF HARD WORDS

READ IT, KNOW IT, USE IT

By David Bramwell

195x145mm • 128pp • £9.99 • PLC • ISBN 978-1-906051-23-5 • June 2008

You've upgraded your house, your wardrobe, even your partner. Now it's time to upgrade your vocabulary. This is a unique, visual guide to doing just that.

Ever wished you knew what callipygian meant? Now, with this indispensable visual dictionary, you will not only be able to read what those hard words mean, learn where they come from and see in pictures how they break down, you will be able to show off by using them in the right context. Callipygian means possessing a fine pair of buttocks, by the way. No more will you have to say someone has "a great butt". Instead you can say, "Brad Pitt is just sooooo callipygian!"

You'll never be lost for words again!

• Ingenious sequences of thematic cartoons imprint each part of each word on your memory
• Reveals the definition and the origin of each word, then shows the word in use
• Words have been graded from hard to harder to hardest for progressive learning
• Grandiloquence (grandis [great] + loqui [to speak]) guaranteed!