The Big Book Of Words You Should Know To Sound Smart
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The Big Book Of Words You Should Know To Sound Smart

A Guide for Aspiring Intellectuals

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Big Book Of Words You Should Know To Sound Smart

A Guide for Aspiring Intellectuals

About this book

The ultimate word book for aspiring intellectuals!The most compendious collection of words for aspiring scholars, this book helps you hold your own in intellectual discourse. Featuring 2, 400 sophisticated, obscure, and obtuse terms, each page provides you with the definitions you need to know to lock academic horns with the clerisy. From antebellum and eleemosynary to impasto and putative, you will quickly master hundreds of erudite phrases that will improve your conversational elegance.Complete with definitions and sample sentences for each entry, The Big Book of Words You Should Know to Sound Smart will elevate your lexicon as you impress the susurration out of the perfervid hoi polloi.

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Publisher
Adams Media
Year
2015
eBook ISBN
9781440591075

I, J, K

“We are truly INDEFATIGABLE in providing for the needs of the body, but we starve the soul.”
Ellen Wood, British playwright
iamatology (ey-am-uh-TAHL-uh-jee), noun
The branch of medicine that studies remedies.
Doctors devoted to IAMATOLOGY have carefully examined homeopathic remedies but have found most do not work.
iatramelia (ey-a-tra-MEHL-ee-ah), noun
Neglect by a medical professional or institution.
The commission found a shocking number of cases of IATRAMELIA in which large hospitals had put patients’ lives and health at risk for the sake of profits.
iatrophobia (ey-a-troh-FOH-bee-ah), noun
The fear of going to the doctor.
My IATROPHOBIA is well founded, since whenever I see my doctor he tells me there’s something wrong with me.
ibis (AYH-bis), noun
A large, tropical wading bird with a long, curved bill.
In the tropical rainforest exhibit at the aquarium, we saw an IBIS and several parrots.
ichneumon (ik-NEW-mun), noun
An Egyptian mongoose.
Some families kept ICHNEUMONS as pets to ward off cobras.
ichnite (IK-nyte), noun
A fossil footprint.
Anthropologists have discovered human ICHNITES crossing a river in the Rift Valley in East Africa, proving an early presence of man there.
ichthyoid (IK-thee-oyd), adjective
Fish-like; having a fish-like appearance.
Many of H.P. Lovecraft’s characters have a degenerate, ICHTHYOID appearance.
ichthyology (ik-thee-AH-lah-gee), noun
The study of fish.
After majoring in ICHTHYOLOGY as an undergraduate, he took a PhD in marine biology.
ichthyomorphic (ik-thee-oh-MORE-fik), adjective
Fish-like in shape.
H.P. Lovecraft’s most famous ICHTHYOMORPHIC character is Dagon.
ickle (IK-uhl), adjective
Ironic word for “little.”
“Ahhh. Does ICKLE Ronnie have somefink on his nosie?” —Fred Weasley in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
iconoclast (eye-KAHN-uh-clast), noun
An individual who is contrarian in thought, rebellious in spirit, oppositional, and who applies himself to battling established institutions, existing governments, religious doctrine, and popular notions and beliefs.
The late George Carlin saw the role of the comic in society as one of an ICONOCLAST.
iconoclastic (ey-kon-uh-KLAS-tik), adjective
Characterized by attacks on institutions or long-held beliefs.
During the 1960s, ICONOCLASTIC student activists challenged the government’s war in Vietnam.
icterine (IK-ter-eyn), adjective
Yellow; marked with yellow.
The bird was small, and the ICTERINE markings on its wings matched the sunflower on which it was sitting.
ideogeny (ih-dee-AH-jen-ee), noun
The study of the origin of ideas.
Historians of philosophy have long studied the IDEOGENY of the Greek schools of Epicureanism and Stoicism.
ideologue (EYE-dee-oh-log), noun
A person who rigidly adheres to an ideology with a closed mind regarding other points of view.
“An IDEOLOGUE may be defined as a mad intellectual.” —Clifton Fadiman, American critic
idiomorphic (id-ee-uh-MAWR-fik), adjective
Having its own, characteristic shape.
The tree is easily recognizable by its IDIOMORPHIC peculiarities, since the bulk of the branches grow only at its top.
idioticon (ih-dee-OH-tih-kan), noun
The glossary of a language or voca...

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Dedication
  4. Introduction
  5. A
  6. B
  7. C
  8. D
  9. E
  10. F
  11. G
  12. H
  13. I, J, K
  14. L
  15. M
  16. N
  17. O
  18. P
  19. Q
  20. R
  21. S
  22. T
  23. U, V
  24. W
  25. X, Y & Z
  26. About the Author
  27. Acknowledgments
  28. Copyright