The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our Sumptuous Lexicon
- ISBN-10
- 0618381961
- ISBN-13
- 9780618381968
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 162
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Description
Uses imaginative examples to illustrate the meaning of words from abrogate, brouhaha, and cachinnate to susurration, truculence, and voluble.
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