Vocabulary category: 1591 books
by Instituto Cervantes
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Los hablantes nos enfrentamos a menudo con vacilaciones y dudas cuando pretendemos usar de manera correcta la lengua española: ¿los nombres propios tienen una forma ortográfica fija?, ¿se dice horas extras u horas extra?, ¿los apodos van entre comillas?, ¿veintiún personas o veintiuna personas?, ¿los...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2006
Do you know what a snollygoster is? Would you eat something called a muktuk? Do you know anyone who engages in onolatry? Impress your friends and pepper your dinner party conversations with such nuggets as gobemouche, mumpsimus, and cachinnate. You can learn about all of these bizarre and beautiful...
by Joanne Adams
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
Do you sometimes mix up your ‘affects’ and ‘effects’? Do you know when to use ‘less’ or ‘fewer’? And what about punctuation – would you like to feel sure about using semicolons?
Grammar can be a bit of black hole in terms of size and matter, and if you’re not confident about...
Strictly English
The correct way to write ... and why it matters
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
"Be in no doubt: the beer was drunk but the man drank the beer."
"We must avoid vulgarities like 'front up'. If someone is 'fronting up' a television show, then he is presenting it."
Simon Heffer's incisive and amusingly despairing emails to colleagues at the The...
Simply English
An A-Z of Avoidable Errors
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
In his best-selling Strictly English Simon Heffer explained how to write and speak our language well. In Simply English he offers an entertaining and supremely useful A–Z guide to frequent errors, common misunderstandings and stylistic howlers. What is the difference between amend and emend, between...
As Right as Rain
The Meaning and Origins of Popular Expressions
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Would you be down in the dumps if, when asked the definition of certain phrases, it was all Greek to you? Let's not beat about the bush: the English language is littered with linguistic quirks, which, out of context, seem completely peculiar. If you can't quite cut the mustard, this book will explain...
First Spanish Reader for Beginners
Bilingual for Speakers of English
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2010
There are simple and funny Spanish texts for easy reading. The book consists of Elementary and Pre-intermediate courses with parallel Spanish-English texts. The author maintains learners' motivation with funny stories about real life situations such as meeting people, studying, job searches, working...
by Murray Brombert, Melvin Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
A Barron's best-seller for more than five decades!
This brand-new edition of 1100 Words You Need to Know has been expanded and updated, and includes:
Word lists and definitions
Analogy exercises
Words-in-context exercises
Idiom indexes
An updated Pronunciation Guide
All new words for...
The Artful Nuance
A Refined Guide to Imperfectly Understood Words in the English Language
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
**?The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter.? (Mark Twain)
What?s the difference between:
Nectar and ambrosia? Bough and branch? Astonished and surprised? Sensual and sensuous? Beside and besides?**
Many people use these words interchangeably...
First German Reader for Students
Bilingual for Speakers of English
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Each chapter of First German Reader for Students is filled with words that are organized by topic, then used in a story in German. Questions and answers rephrase information and text is repeated in English to aid comprehension. The quick and easy-to-use format organizes many of everyday situations...
by Artie O. Murray
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
This book is collection of language from the perspective of an African American female. As a child she did not know she was poor until she took an economics class in college. Regardless of age most readers especially African Americans will marvel at how the words printed on the pages will move you...
Thingamajigs and Whatchamacallits
Unfamiliar Terms for Familiar Things
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Have you been guilty of catachresis* at work? Have you defenestrated* your dictionary in frustration? Do you have phloem bundles* stuck in your diastema*? Scratching your occiput* now?
Rod L. Evans's Thingamajigs and Whatchamacallits will help take the mystery out of some of our most obscure...
Korean for Beginners
Mastering Conversational Korean (Downloadable Material Included)
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Have you ever considered learning Korean, but been put off by the unusual look of the characters? Don't let yourself be scared away! Korean has been called "the most logical language there is," and with this friendly and thorough introduction you will soon see why.
The best way to...
Webster's American English Thesaurus
With over 10,000 entries, and 350,000 synonyms and antonyms (US English)
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
An invaluable reference companion for writers, students, public speakers and all those who enjoy the English language. Contains over 10,000 entries and 350,000 synonyms and antonyms.