The Thinker's Thesaurus: Sophisticated Alternatives to Common Words

With over twenty percent more material, a must for any lover of distinctive words.

This entertaining and informative reference features sophisticated and surprising alternatives to common words together with no-fail guides to usage. Avoiding traditional thesauruses' mundane synonym choices, Peter E. Meltzer puts each word-whether it's protrepic, apostrophize, iracund, or emulous-in context by using examples from a broad range of contemporary books, periodicals, and newspapers. His new introd...