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The Well-Spoken thesaurus:the Most Powerful Ways To Say Everyday Words and Phrases
[Paperback - 2011]
tom heehler
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Publisher: Sourcebooks Usa | ISBN: 9781402243059 | Pages: 400
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The Ultimate Guide to Powerful Language If you've ever fumbled while trying to use a big word* to impress a crowd, you know what it's like to* be poorly spoken. The fear of mispronouncing or misusing complex words is real and leaves many of us consigned to the lower levels* of the English Language. The secret to eloquence, however, lies in simplicity-the ability to use ordinary words in extraordinary ways. The Well-Spoken Thesaurus is your guide to eloquence, replacing the ordinary with the extraordinary. While a common thesaurus provides only synonyms as mere word-for-word equivalents, The Well-Spoken Thesaurus is filled with* dynamic reinventions of standard words and phrases. *lofty word, pretentious word *know what it is to *lower reaches, lower echelons *awash in, instilled with, dense with, rich in

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Tom Heehler is an American writer and lexicographer, best known for his critically acclaimed reference work and style guide,The Well-Spoken Thesaurus: The Most Powerful Ways to Say Everyday Words and Phrases(Sourcebooks, 2011 -- now in its fifth printing).The Chicago Tribunecalls his book "A celebration of the spoken word." "Take your writing to new heights," raves the Gotham Writers Workshop.In addition to American newspaper and radio venues, Mr. Heehler's writings have attracted favorable notice internationally. He's been quoted byThe Economic Timesof London, The 43rd Saint Gallen Symposium in Switzerland,The Timesof India,QFinance,and the TEDx Spanish Twitter feed, to name a few.Heehler -- a distant relative of Funk & Wagnalls co-founder Isaac K. Funk -- has coined such literary terms as verb displacement, intuitive description, and rhetorical tension, all of which are subjects of essays featured in his book's 50-page style guide, "Rhetorical Form and Design." He's also -- uncoincidentally -- an avid collector of English-translated works by 17th century German philosopher, Gottfried Leibniz -- the creative genius from which his next book,The Periodic Table of Divine Madness: Organized Creativity and the World's First Idea Machine,takes its inspiration.

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