Nearly 2,000 words\u2014including the ones you meant to look up but didn\u2019t\u2026 things you didn\u2019t know the names for\u2026 interesting concepts and unusual practices\u2026 and much more.<\/p>\n
\ufe61 Witty, elegant, and quirky quotations from literature and journalism: excellent examples of the words in use, by the most skillful writers.
\n\ufe61 Vintage illustrations, jokes, and anecdotes.
\n\ufe61 A list of \u201cThe Ones You Really Should Know.\u201d
\n\ufe61 Organized by category: personality types\u2026 \u201cThings You Don\u2019t Run Into Every Day\u201d\u2026 Shakespearean vocabulary\u2026 terminology from architecture, art, music, law, and religion\u2026 and more.
\n\ufe61 The perfect book for your bedside table.<\/p>\n
Whether you\u2019re a writer, a reader, a teacher, or just someone who enjoys language, you\u2019ll find delights on every page of The Word-Lover\u2019s Lexicon<\/em>.<\/p>\n What can you do with The Word-Lover\u2019s Lexicon<\/em>?<\/p>\n A few samples:<\/p>\n overweening<\/strong> arrogant, overconfident, insolent mesomorph<\/strong> (\u201cMEZZ-\u0259-morf\u201d) a powerful, muscular person of medium stature marmoreal<\/strong> (\u201cmar-MORE-ee-\u0259l\u201d) like marble: cold, smooth, white, hard; or made of marble provident<\/strong> (\u201cPRAHV-e-d\u0259nt\u201d) frugal; making foresightful arrangements for future needs haboob<\/strong> (\u201cha-BOOB\u201d) in Sudan, a strong wind that carries sand from the desert rutilant<\/strong> (\u201cROO-t\u0259-l\u0259nt\u201d) glowing or glittering with a reddish or golden light uxorious<\/strong> (\u201c\u0259k-SOR-ee-\u0259ss\u201d) excessively devoted to or fond of one\u2019s wife; or submissive to her wishes adventitious<\/strong> (\u201cad-ven-TIH-sh\u0259ss\u201d) unplanned; acquired by accident; not inherent Nimrod<\/strong> a skilled hunter: often used ironically (from a descendant of Noah, mentioned in Genesis<\/em>) \u2022 \u2022 \u2022<\/p>\n Note: The book doesn\u2019t include an index, but I made one, belatedly. If you own the book and want the index, send me an email\u2014MikeLaser@comcast.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nearly 2,000 words\u2014including the ones you meant to look up but didn\u2019t\u2026 things you didn\u2019t know the names for\u2026 interesting concepts and unusual practices\u2026 and much more.\n
\n“Engaged. Donald Trump, 45, overweening casino developer, and Marla Maples, 27, his on-again, off-again girlfriend.” \u2014 Time<\/em> magazine, 1991<\/p>\n
\n\u201cBehold the manly mesomorph \/ Showing his splendid biceps off.\u201d \u2014 W.H. Auden, Nones<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u201cThe marmoreal cool of Debbie Harry and the band’s razor-sharp duds plastered across TV screens helped define the nascent new wave genre\u2026\u201d \u2014 from an article in Billboard<\/em> magazine, 2020<\/p>\n
\n\u201cMy suspender broke and had it not been for my provident habit of carrying a supply of safety pins with me, I should have had an awkward day of it.\u201d \u2014 from a letter by Vanessa Bell, in her Selected Letters<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u201c\u2026if I hadn\u2019t been wearing goggles she might\u2019ve blinded me with that haboob she created.\u201d \u2014 Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport<\/em> (The narrator is describing a traumatic experience with a dental hygienist\u2019s abrasive cleaning device.)<\/p>\n
\n\u201cHe had a round head as bare as a knee, a corpse\u2019s button nose, and very white, very limp, very damp hands adorned with rutilant gems.\u201d \u2014 Vladimir Nabokov, Ada<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u201cThe uxorious Hoosier, whose political career seemed deader than Lazarus or Myspace two years ago, is now a heartbeat\u2026 away from being leader of the free world.\u201d \u2014 from an article about Mike Pence in Newsweek<\/em>, 2017<\/p>\n
\n\u201cPeople often think of me as an adventurous fellow; nothing could be farther from the truth. My adventures were always adventitious, always thrust on me, always endured rather than undertaken.\u201d \u2014 Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn<\/em><\/p>\n
\nIn a Looney Tune, Daffy Duck addresses Elmer Fudd as \u201cmy little Nimrod.\u201d Audiences didn\u2019t recognize the Biblical\/literary reference, and understood the word to mean \u201cinept fool.\u201d It has had that additional meaning ever since.<\/p>\n
\nRead More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":969,"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","book-authors":[],"book-series":[],"book-tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-970","1":"books","2":"type-books","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaellaser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/books\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaellaser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/books"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaellaser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/books"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaellaser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaellaser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaellaser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"book-authors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaellaser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbook-authors&post=970"},{"taxonomy":"book-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaellaser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbook-series&post=970"},{"taxonomy":"book-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaellaser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbook-tags&post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}