500 words you should know
Taggart, Caroline
500 words you should know Five hundred words you should know Caroline Taggart - London : Michael O'Mara Books Limited, c2014. - 192 p. ; 21 cm.
Ever wanted to improve your atavistic lexicon, engage in a little intellectual badinage or been discombobulated by tricky diction? 500 Words You Should Know has you covered. Words are beautiful and versatile things, but when misused they can lose a lot in transition, and the more complex the word, the more misused it can become. And as words eternally evolve in their everyday use, they can begin to be interpreted as something other than their original meaning. 500 Words You Should Know will inspire the reader to use uncommon words in their correct context, to utilise the English language.
9781782432944
English language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
English language--Foreign words and phrases
422.403 TA FI
500 words you should know Five hundred words you should know Caroline Taggart - London : Michael O'Mara Books Limited, c2014. - 192 p. ; 21 cm.
Ever wanted to improve your atavistic lexicon, engage in a little intellectual badinage or been discombobulated by tricky diction? 500 Words You Should Know has you covered. Words are beautiful and versatile things, but when misused they can lose a lot in transition, and the more complex the word, the more misused it can become. And as words eternally evolve in their everyday use, they can begin to be interpreted as something other than their original meaning. 500 Words You Should Know will inspire the reader to use uncommon words in their correct context, to utilise the English language.
9781782432944
English language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
English language--Foreign words and phrases
422.403 TA FI