The Dictionary of Difficult Words (eBook)

With more than 400 perplexing words to test your wits!

Jane Solomon (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019 | New Edition
112 Seiten
Frances Lincoln Children's Books (Verlag)
978-1-78603-812-8 (ISBN)

Infos

What is a bumbershoot? Or a moonbow? And what does it mean when someone absquatulates...?Find out all this and more in The Dictionary of Difficult Words. Test your knowledge with more than 400 words to amaze, confuse, and inspire budding wordsmiths (and adults).All of the words featured in this book are difficult to spell, hard to say, and their meanings are obscure to most children (and most adults)! You can master them with the simple, easy-to-understand definitions and pronunciations written by lexicographer(yes, thats in there too!) Jane Solomon.Fun, colorful illustrations add whimsy to the pages. Some jobbernowls say dictionaries are anachronistic, or even obsolete, but its kenspeckle to real bibliophiles that those vociferous ninnyhammers are just metagrobolised by the plethora of portmanteaus, neologisms, and jargon they offer. Next time you find yourself wrangling with one of these ultracrepidarians, no need to imagineer a sockdolager: just show them this book. This captivating dictionary celebrates the beauty of the English language for family trivia time spent around the printed page.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.5.2019
• Illustrationen: Louise Lockhart
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Jugendbücher ab 12 Jahre
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Spielen / Lernen ► Lernen / Lernspiele
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Spielen / Lernen ► Quiz / Rätsel
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
• Schlagworte: 3 • 4 • 7 year old • 9 • Activities • age 8 • Amazing • American • Anxiety • away from people • BIG • book of interesting words • boost vocabulary • boredom buster • buffs • Busy • busy work • cabin fever • calm • Cambridge • Celebration • challenging • children • Classroom • Common • complex spelling • Complicated • dictionary.com • dictionary games • distraction • Educational • Elementary • english dictionary for kids • etymology • family fun • Game • grade 2 • grammar • Happy • hard to spell • home school • Homeschooling • Indoor • in the house • Isolation • language • lesson plan • Lexicographer • Lexicography • limit screentime • Linguistics • Literacy • meanings • merriam webster • Middle • Most • occupied • origin • Oxford • project based learning • Punctuation • reading skills • Relieve stress • screen free • scripps national spelling bee • spelling bee prep • staycation • Teach • Teacher • The Lost • Thesaurus • things to do while trapped inside • Time • tricky • Trivia • US • where do words come from • wonderful • Words with friends
• ISBN-10: 1-78603-812-9 / 1786038129
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78603-812-8 / 9781786038128