This impressive thesaurus--containing more than 50,000 uncommon and colorful words--offers logophiles the opportunity to be fortitudinous, furtive, or even grandiloquent when making a polyphony or just pontificating. Introduction by Noah Adams of "All Things Considered". Line art. From The Publisher: A 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 airs & | 
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