Grandiloquent Words: A Pictoric Lexicon of Ostrobogulous Locutions -- Jason Travis Ott, Hardcover
Words confirm and deny, guarantee and deceive, elucidate and obfuscate.
The more words you know, the better you can express yourself and the more you can do in life. The founder of Grandiloquent Word of the Day accordingly presents a voluptuary of verbiage encompassing rare and obscure terms that confound or delight, antiquated argot from myriad epochs, and lexemes for venturesome bibliophiles.
Featuring a short, insightful introduction, Grandiloquent Words offers more than 250 preternatural terminologies for you to ingurgitate and brandish with aplomb for countless occasions. Bask in cataracts of mundane morphemes, bookish locutions, beef-witted blatteroons, corporeal catastrophes, playful patois, and jolly jubilations.
These always-extra expressions encompass timeless topics and modern phenomena, painting a group portrait of our foibles and joys. Replete with pronunciations, etymologies, examples, and whimsical illustrations, it will edify and entertain.
*This rare collection of definitions celebrates the marvels of our language.
Author: Jason Travis Ott
Publisher: Countryman Press
Published: 11/07/2023
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.45h x 5.83w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9781682687994