100 Words To Make You Sound Smart (100 Words) | 
 enlarge | Creator: Editors Of The American Heritage Dictionaries
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 14479
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 4.4 x 0.4
ISBN: 061871488X
Dewey Decimal Number: 422
EAN: 9780618714889
ASIN: 061871488X
Publication Date: October 4, 2006
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Product Description
The newest title in the popular 100 Words series is an informative
and entertaining resource that can help anyone be right on the
money when looking for words that will make a point, seal the deal,
or just keep folks listening. Chosen by the editors of the American
Heritage Dictionaries, these words will appeal to anyone who wants
to be a more compelling communicator?as a worker, consumer,
advocate, friend, dinner companion, or even as a romantic prospect.
The book includes a colorful variety of words, including handy
words of just one syllable (such as glib) and words derived from the
names of famous people (such as Freudian slip and Machiavellian).
There are expressions from popular culture (Catch-22) and words that
date back to classical civilization (spartan and stoic). Each word is
clearly defined and shown in context with quotations from contemporary
sources: magazines, newspapers, broadcast media, movies, and
television. For many words, quotations from distinguished authors and
speakers are also given and word histories are explained.
Like its predecessors in this successful series, 100 Words to
Make You Sound Smart provides an affordable and enjoyable way
to communicate more effectively. It offers the coveted gift of gab to
anyone who needs to "say it right"?and to anyone who wants to sound
more articulate.
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 Fun to Flip through June 24, 2008
This is cute book that is fun to flip through and keep with your dictionary. It is essentially just a small dictionary and beyond definitions doesn't go into detail on entomology.
 Gateway to Learning HUGE Words October 9, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I recently got this book at my elementary school's book fair, and I was sucked into it immediately. I love to learn big words and impress my peers. I also adore writing, and now that I have this book, I can use the vocabulary in my stories. My dream is to be in the Scripp's National Spelling Bee, and these are the type of words given to contestants. I reccomend this book to anyone who had a love for reading and most of all, spelling to impress!
 save your money March 15, 2007
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I bought this because I wanted to expand my vocabulary, so you could imagine my disappointment when I got this book and already knew most of the words in it. Save your money.
not for everyone January 6, 2007
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
The book would make a cute stocking stuffer for the kids, but I wouldn't recommend it for the educated adult. Most of the words in the book are words you probably use regularly. It is something to flip through on the commute to work.
 Words, words, words December 7, 2006
18 out of 21 found this review helpful
True, these 100 words in the book may make me sound smart, but I wonder if I use them in writing to the eighth-grade-reading-level public, will I make them feel stupid?
A book I read recently said that we are to write to that reading level, not because our reader's ability, but because today people are sssssoooooo busy and stressed they don't want to take the time to read "harder," higher-level words.
I was thrilled that a writer/editor of other people's words, I knew every single one. So now let's see how many of those 100 words I can use in a sentence (do I need a hobby, or what?)
The lurid (explicit/vivid) paradox (contradict) is insidious (treacherous), making me peevish (irritable) in that it is Spartan (simple manner) and without stigma (disgrace), but is also stoic (show no emotion), ostentatious (pretentious), and fastidious (attention to detail)--a dichotomy (divided into two parts) that is a red herring (draws attention from matter at hand) that is 100 percent non sequitur (does not follow logically).
So there. Writers and readers, if you can catch an idiosyncratic word (peculiar to a specific group), write me at P.O. Box _____.
Armchair Interviews says: The 100 Words That Make You Sound Smart would be a fun gift for anyone, including you--because anything that can make you sound smart can't be all bad. You think?
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