Oxford Dictionary of Difficult Words
We all know what the words cat and dog and mother and tree mean. What we really need is a dictionary that helps us with the tough words, like elucubrate, or demesne, or cynosure. True, a standard dictionary can bail us out when we run across a tough word at home or in a library. But we often read elsewhere--in a doctor's waiting room or on a plane, or while on vacation. What do we do then? \ The Oxford Dictionary of Difficult Words is designed to meet this need. A portable reference, it...
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Continuing his abstracts of the Oxford English Dictionary, most of them topical, Hobson here drops out the words that native speakers almost never need to look up the meaning or spelling of. To provide a succinct reference for general readers, he also drops all information on etymology and history. Annotation © Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
PrefaceviHow to Use the Oxford Dictionary of Difficult WordsviiStaffixKey to the PronunciationsxOxford Dictionary of Difficult Words1AppendixHow Words Are Built: Prefixes, Suffixes, and Combining Forms475
