Big Book Of Words

Introduces basic vocabulary through pictures of items in such categories as household objects, foods, animals, vehicles, games, musical instruments, and circuses. On board pages.

Do you know what "quatrefoil" and "impolitic" mean? What about "halcyon" or "narcolepsy"? This book is a handy, easy-to-read reference guide to the proper parlance for any situation. In this book you will find: Words You Absolutely Should Know (covert, exonerate, perimeter); Words You Should Know But Probably Don't (dour, incendiary, scintilla); Words Most People Don't Know (schlimazel, thaumaturgy, epergne); Words You Should Know to Sound Overeducated (ad infinitum, nugatory, garrulity); Words You Probably Shouldn't Know (priapic, damnatory, labia majora); and more. Whether writing an essay, studying for a test, or trying to impress friends, family, and fellow cocktail party guests with their prolixity, you will achieve magniloquence, ebullience, and flights of rhetorical brilliance.

"A dictionary of "big and intellectual" words"--

An essential vocabulary builder for young children, with around a thousand everyday words and pictures, arranged thematically.

This first word book provides very young children with lots of everydaybjects to spot and name, whilst children who are learning to read can usehe book as a fun spelling guide. A hide-and-seek game is included - Busterhe dog is hiding in the scenes on every double page!

Observing, recognizing, and naming things will become an exciting adventure with The Big Book of Words for Curious Kids. This appealing, easy-to-use book makes the first steps of learning easier for children and more fun for their parents. Through these pages, children can enter the universe of words on their own level, recognizing little by little the order of things, what things are called, how they are used, and how they relate to one another.

"More than 300 activities to introduce, reinforce, and practice sight words"--P.[1] of cover.