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Straight from the Fridge, Dad: A Dictionary of Hipster Slang
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100 Words Almost Everyone Confuses And Misuses
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Common Phrases: And Where They Come From
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Weird and Wonderful Words
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A Word A Day: A Romp through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Written by the founder of the wildly popular A Word A Day Web site (www.wordsmith.org), this collection of unusual, obscure, and exotic English w...
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Another Word A Day: An All-New Romp through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A smorgasbord of surprising, obscure, and exotic wordsIn this delightful encore to the national bestseller A Word A Day, Anu Garg, the founder of...
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Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right
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Language In Thought And Action: Fifth Edition
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The New Comprehensive American Rhyming Dictionary
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The New American Webster Handy College Dictionary: Fourth Edition
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American Slang, 4th Edition
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The Big Book of Words You Should Know: Over 3,000 Words Every Person Should be Able to Use (And a few that you probably shouldn't)
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The Words You Should Know to Sound Smart: 1200 Essential Words Every Sophisticated Person Should Be Able to Use
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The Big Book Of Words You Should Know To Sound Smart: A Guide for Aspiring Intellectuals
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Dictionary of Word Origins: The Histories of More Than 8,000 English-Language Words
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1100 Words You Need to Know + Online Practice: Build Your Vocabulary in Just 15 Minutes a Day!
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Verbolario / Verbulary
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Baby Names 2023 (Us)
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The Oxford New Desk Dictionary and Thesaurus
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Word Power Made Easy: The Complete Handbook for Building a Superior Vocabulary
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Crosswordese: A Guide to the Weird and Wonderful Language of Crossword Puzzles
HardcoverOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /"Crosswordese in all its glory has never been so entertaining!"--Will Shortz A celebration of the weird and wonderful language of crosswords, and ...
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Grandiloquent Words: A Pictoric Lexicon of Ostrobogulous Locutions
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /This recondite caboodle of glosses panegyrizes the boggles of our palaver.* Words confirm and deny, guarantee and deceive, elucidate and obfuscat...
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Beautiful Words: A Celebration for Word Lovers
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Explore the beauty and intrigue of the English language through this collection of the most fascinating words in the dictionary.Close your eyes for...
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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
HardcoverOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "It's undeniably thrilling to find words for our strangest feelings...Koenig casts light into lonely corners of human exp...
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