Pocket Posh Word Power

A fancy little package for true word lovers. This utterly debatable list will be a conversation starter and a very entertaining book to carry around. We’ve taken our million-selling Pocket Posh® format (over 1.5 million copies in print) and packed this pretty purse-sized book with 120 words that are truly fun to say, words such as discombobulated, lagniappe, onomatopoeia, and baba ganoush. From absquatulate to zoilist to words found in between (such as hullabaloo, phantasmagorical, and obstreperous), Pocket Posh Word Power: 120 Words That Are Fun to Say offers a list of smile-inducing words that will raise everyone's spirits along with their word power. This Pocket Posh Word Power collection promises a gargantuan vocabulary boost inside an effortlessly portable, ergonomic package that features fun cover embellishments, an elastic band closure, and a convenient lay-flat binding. In addition, each entry provides pronunciation, part of speech, definition, usage in a sentence, and etymology information.

Adorn your conversations with precise and elegant words such as muliebrity, insouciant, extirpate, and vitiate, all found inside Pocket Posh Word Power: 120 Words to Make You Sound Intelligent. This Pocket Posh Word Power collection promises a gargantuan vocabulary boost inside an effortlessly portable, ergonomic package that features fun cover embellishments, an elastic band closure, and a convenient lay-flat binding. In addition, each entry provides pronunciation, part of speech, definition, usage in a sentence, and etymology information.

A pretty, purse-sized package of words that everyone should know.We’ve taken our million-selling Pocket Posh®format(over 1.5 million copies in print) and filled it with a selection of words you should know for clear communication. Words such as propinquity, armillary, and farrago should be vocabulary staples. Consult Pocket Posh Word Power: 120 Words You Should Know to determine other additions to your lexicon. This Pocket Posh Word Power collection promises a gargantuan vocabulary boost inside an effortlessly portable, ergonomic package that features fun cover embellishments, an elastic band closure, and a convenient lay-flat binding. In addition, each entry provides pronunciation, part of speech, definition, usage in a sentence, and etymology information.

This book will help you "to have at your command knowledge of today's business buzzwords--not necessarily to use them, but to be able to acknowledge their use and to get past them to the real substance of the matter."--Preface, p. v

A brand-new theme for our best-selling Pocket Posh® series, we present one hundred puzzles created for those who love the power and beauty of words. You don't have to be a logophile (a lover of words) to enjoy this puzzle collection, but if you are one, this is the puzzle book for you—100 puzzles and quizzes themed for the love of words and the English language. Included in this collection are word searches themed to adjectives beginning with "a," common regular verbs, adjectives ending in "cious," words originally from Dutch, Latin phrases in everyday English, and so on. Also, pathfinder puzzles themed for French words used in English, idioms, poets, and names of authors are included in this collection. In addition, there are codewords that, when deciphered, spell out quotes about the power and beauty of words. Crossword, word search, anagram, codeword, word wheel, kriss kross, arroword, quizzes, and other fun puzzle types are all presented here with themes relating to our love of words and reading. This attractive, tidy package is sized for portability and is part of our best-selling series of puzzle books that feature highly stylized, embellished covers and boast 5 million copies in print. A free trial subscription to The Puzzle Society™ adds extra value.

Discover how a little poetry can lift your spirits and inspire your life, with selections from Yeats, Byron, Poe, Dickinson, and other greats. Including William Blake’s “The Tyger,” Emily Dickinson’s “Hope Is the Thing with Feathers,” William Wordsworth’s “The World Is Too Much with Us,” John Keats’s “A Thing of Beauty” (from “Endymion”), and ninety-six more, this collection of classic poems allows you to spend a few moments each day with timeless verses. Escape the noise and experience a taste of Walt Whitman, Alfred Tennyson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Butler Yeats, Emily Bronte, Amy Lowell, Christina Rossetti, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edgar Allan Poe, Sara Teasdale, Lord Byron, and many more.

Find a hundred ways to say “I love you” with a heartwarming collection featuring poets from Shakespeare to Shelley. “If ever two were one, then surely we.” —Anne Bradstreet Shakespeare’s sonnets; the elegant words of Robert Browning; the poignant works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning; the stirring poetry of Christina Rossetti—all are collected here in this celebration of romantic passion and deep abiding love. Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Butler Yeats, Lord Byron, Keats, Wordsworth, Shelley, and other treasured poets provide meaningful, memorable ways to speak the language of the heart.

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