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Build a superior vocabulary with 1,000 words?esoteric, arcane, archaic, unusual words with “real life” examples of how to deploy them. Includes definitions and practical advice on usage to confound your friends, irritate your enemies, and impress your superiors.

Peter Bowler’s aim is to provide “the ordinary man in the street with new and better verbal weapons?words which until now have been available only to philologists, lexicographers, and art critics.” Thus the reader will not only learn the meaning of aprosexia, but also how best to use it when filling out their sick leave application form. Sample sentences, in comprehensible and often hilarious prose, are given for every word providing a verbal arsenal potent enough to “confuse, deter, embarrass, humiliate, puzzle, deceive, disconcert, alarm, insult (and occasionally compliment) everyone” with relative impunity.