Highly Selective Thesaurus for the Extraoridarily Literate

Can't find the words? Find them here. The Highly Selective Thesaurus for the Extraordinarily Literate includes: words you'd be pleased to take home to mother; words you wouldn't dare take home to mother; and words for those who know that language is, alas, sometimes selected to impress and obscure.

Anyone looking to improve his or her vocabulary and anyone who loves words will be enthralled by this unique and impressive thesaurus that provides only the most unusual -- or is it recondite? --words for each entry.

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Title of ebook: Highly Selective Thesaurus for the Extraoridarily Literate
ISBN: 9780060737450
parent-ISBN: 9780062700162
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
Published: 01-2004
Released online for download: 01-13-2004
Author of eBook: Ehrlich, Eugene H.

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abacus n. soroban

abandoned adj. cade, derelict, profligate

abate v. mitigate, palliate, quash

abdicate v. abjure, abnegate, demit

abject adj. craven, fawning, ignominious

able adj. habile

abnormal adj. heteroclite, preternatural

abnormality n. deuteropathy

abolish v. disestablish, extirpate

abominable adj. flagitious, odious

Abominable Snowman yeti

aborigine n. autochthon, indigenous inhabitant

abound v. exuberate

abridge v. attenuate, epitomize

abscond v. decamp

absent-minded adj.
distrait, distraite

absinth n. wormwood

absolute adj. 1. rank, unmitigated; 2. assoluta, inviolable,
peremptory

absolution, grant shrive

absorbent adj. bibulous

absorption n. immersion, prepossession

abstain v. eschew, forbear

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