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The Highly Selective Thesaurus for the Extraordinarily Literate Hardcover - 1994 - 1st Edition

by Eugene Ehrlich


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abacus "n." soroban

abandoned "adj." cade, derelict, profligate

abate "v." mitigate, palliate, quash

abdicate "v." abjure, abnegate, demit

abject "adj." craven, fawning, ignominious

able "adj." habile

abnormal "adj." heteroclite, preternatural

abnormality "n." deuteropathy

abolish "v." disestablish, extirpate

abominable "adj." flagitious, odious

Abominable Snowman yeti

aborigine "n." autochthon, indigenous inhabitant

abound "v." exuberate

abridge "v." attenuate, epitomize

abscond "v." decamp

absent-minded "adj."
distrait, distraite

absinth "n." wormwood

absolute "adj." 1. rank, unmitigated; 2. assoluta, inviolable,
peremptory

absolution, grant shrive

absorbent "adj." bibulous

absorption "n." immersion, prepossession

abstain "v." eschew, forbear

abstention "n." abstemiousness

abstract "adj." noetic

abstract "n." compendium, epitome

abstract "v." prescind

abstruse "adj." involuted, recondite

absurdity "n." bˆ tise

abundance "n." cornucopia, plenitude, profligacy

abuse "v." calumniate, castigate, rail, revile, traduce

abuse "n." aspersion, billingsgate, calumniation, castigation, obloquy, opprobrium, traducement

academic "adj." moot

accept "v." stomach

accessible "adj." pervious

accessory "n." ancillary, appurtenance, parergon

accident "n." allision, fortuity

accidental "adj." adventitious, aleatory, fortuitous, serendipitous

acclaim "n." ‚ clat, kudos

accomplish "v." compass, effectuate

accomplished "adj." compleat, consummate

accomplishments "n." res gestae

account "n." hexaemeron

accrue "v."redound

accumulation "n." alimentation, hypertrophy

accusation "n." gravamen, impeachment

accuse "v." impeach, implead, inculpate, recriminate

accusing "adj." accusatory, criminative

accustom "v." acculturate, inure, wont

achievement "n." capstone, tour de force

acknowledge "v." avouch, homologate

acme "n." apogee, "ne plus ultra"

acquiescence "n." complaisance

acquit "v." exculpate

acronym "n." initialism

active "adj." volitant

actor "n." deuteragonist, onnagata, protagonist

actress "n." ing‚ nue, soubrette

actual "adj." veridical

actuality "n." entelechy

adage "n." aphorism, apothegm

adapt "v." indigenize, quadrate

adaptation "n." rifacimento

added "adj." postiche

addition "n." 1. additament, adjunct, appendicle; 2. parogoge

additional "adj." adscititious

address "n." allocution, apostrophe, salutatory

address "v." apostrophize

adherent "n." ideologue, pr‚ cisian

adhesive "adj." viscid, viscoid, viscose

adjacent "adj." limitrophe, vicinal

adjunct "n." appanage

adjust "v." collimate

administer "v." adhibit

admirer "n." votary

admit "v." intromit

adoring "adj." idolatrous, seraphic

adorn "v." bedizen, emmarble, titivate

adornment "n." frippery, garniture

adulation "n." blandishment, fulsomeness, sycophancy

adulterated "adj." adulterine

adulterer "n." Ischys

adultery "n." cuckoldry, fornication

advance "n." anabasis

Advent "n." Parousia

adventure "n." emprise

adventurer "n." filibuster, landloper

adviser "n." consigliere, consultor

advisory "adj." exhortatory, hortative, hortatory

advocate "n."paladin, paraclete

affected "adj." minikin, missish, niminy-piminy, pr‚ cieuse, pr‚ cieux, recherch‚

affected speech euphuism, periphrasis

affecting "adj." connotative, emotive

affection "n." coraz[ n, dotage, predilection

affirm "v." asseverate, predicate

affix "v." adhibit

affront "n." lŠ se majest‚, lese majesty

afraid "adj." disquieted, fearsome, pavid

afresh "adv." "de nouveau, de novo"

after a death "post obitum"

after a meal postprandial

after a war postbellum

aftereffect "n." sequela

afterlife "n." futurity

aftermath "n." rowen

after the fact ex post facto, post factum

after the Fall postlapsarian

after the Flood postdiluvian

agent "n." comprador, ‚ minence grise

agile "adj." lissome, yare

agility "n." alacrity, celerity, legerity

aging "adj." senescent

agitate "v." commove, discompose

agitated "adj." corybantic, overwrought

agitator "n." agent provocateur, incendiarist

agnosticism "n." nescience

agrarian "adj." agrestic, predial

agreeable "adj." complaisant, consensual, consonant, conversable, ingratiating, sapid, sipid

aggressive "adj." assaultive, officious

agricultural "adj." geoponic, georgic

aide "n." coadjutant

aimlessness "n." circuity, fecklessness

air, stale fug

air hole spiracle

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  • Title The Highly Selective Thesaurus for the Extraordinarily Literate
  • Author Eugene Ehrlich
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Collins Reference, New York
  • Date 1994-04
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780062700162 / 0062700162
  • Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.25 x 5.5 x 0.81 in (20.96 x 13.97 x 2.06 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects English language - Synonyms and antonyms
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93017127
  • Dewey Decimal Code 423.1
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