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A Cure For The Common Word: Remedy Your Tired Vocabulary with 3,000 + Vibrant Alternatives to the Most Overused Words by K. D. Sullivan
Make your ailing vocabulary go from merely good to exceptionally splendid and stupendous!Your brain holds an impressive vocabulary of more than 20,000 words, but chances are you only use a small fraction of them. That fraction is usually filled with worn-out oldies that have lost their impact, such as interesting, good, and niceInside, you'll find more than thirty alternatives for each of the one hundred most commonly overused words in the English language. Along with a list of synonyms, each common word comes with definitions, sample sentences, witty quotes, explanations of why the word fails to communicate, and much more.
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First published October 10, 2007
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October 19, 2011
Some might think this is a dumbed down thesaurus for teens, but I liked it. It has the words you might fall back on when you're lazy (like the notorious "nice" and the overused and abused "awesome"), and provides alternatives that still sound natural. (When some people use the thesaurus there are words no one really ever uses, and you end up sounding like a pompous old fart.) Nice way to bump up your language level, if like me, you've been getting a little rusty. Wish I could print these out on cards and flip through them a bit each day.
June 17, 2009
This was a thesaurus. They can jazz it up and call it what ever they want but it was a thesaurus. There were lots of good quotes at the bottom of each page using their "new and improved" words. I guess it would be good if you were looking to improve your vocabulary, maybe read a page a day or something. I'll just stick to the basic, quote free thesaurus when I need an alternate word.
March 17, 2008
Not as extensive as a true thesaurus. Set up gimmicky, but fun. I could see teens using this "point and click" hardcopy resource.
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