Another Word a Day An All-New Romp Through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English

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1 Words to Describe People I 5 opsimath o agelast o losel o nebbish o cruciverbalist 2 Earls Who Became Words(or Places That Became Words) 9 orrery o cadogan o Oxfordian o derby o Yarborough 3 Words Having Origins in Chess 14 zugzwang o checkmate o gambit o stalemate o endgame 4 Words That Appear to Be Misspellings of Everyday Words I 18 passible monestrous o cloture o nutriment o cwsoi/ 5 Archaic Words 21 clepe o sennight o anon gainsay o hearken 6 Toponyms 24 Chautauqua Pax Romana o Gibraltar o seltzer o Kilkenny cats 7 Words about Books and Writing 28 roman a clef orihon o amphigory o conspectus o magnum opus 8 Words Borrowed from Yiddish chutzpah o mensch o zaftig o kvetch o schlep 9 Terms from the World of Law estoppel o laches o solatium o sui juris o mittimus 10 Words That Appear to Be Misspellings of Everyday Words II eagre o imprest o endue o biennial o quacksalver 11 Words Borrowed from Arabic alembic o nadir o jihad o /icwr/ o talisman 12 Words Formed Erroneously niddering o obsidian o helpmeet o zenith o derring-do 13 What`s in a Name? tony o terf " bobby 14 Words from Poetry cataract o dreary nosegay o collyrium o tarry 15 Fishy Words minnow o gudgeon o remora o inconnu o tope 16 Discover the Theme I ubiety irade o ambit o estival o lanate 17 Terms Employing Various Nationalities French leave o Chinese wall o Roman holiday Dutch auction 18 Words with Double Connections diplopia o double entendre o ambsace satchel o doppelgiinger 19 Words Related to the Calendar 79 ides o bissextile o Greek calends o menology fin de siecle 20 False Friends 83 sacrilegious o scission o oust o impregnable mellifluous 21 Red-Herring Words 87 undulate o fartlek o conversant o assize valorize 22 Words Related to the Human Body 90 nares o oxter pollex o nevus o glossal 23 Words Related to Buying and Selling 93 emptor o nummary o duopoly monopsony o chandler 24 Miscellaneous Words 98 astrobleme pudency o aporia o remontant o loricate 25 Words That Have Changed Meaning with Time 101 demagogue o decimate o feisty o egregious officious 26 Words about Words 107 hapax legomenon o metaphor o vulgat o hyperbole metaplasm 27 Anglo-Saxon Words 111 meed "fen o lief o fain o tM zf 28 Words Borrowed from Other Languages 115 cumshaw o smorgasbord o baksheesh o taboo o honcho 29 Words from Medicine 118 sequela o nosology o idiopathy " placebo o nyctalopia 30 Numeric Terms 123 sixty-four-dollar question o eighty-six twenty-twenty o deep-six o catch-22