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, pocket-sized reference, it features more than 10,000
entries that focus exclusively on words that, while outside most
people's working vocabulary, are often encountered in literature,
in technical writings (such as computing or medical terminology),
and in such diverse subject areas as law, philosophy, and art.
Entries contain pronunciations, parts of speech, concise
definitions, example sentences showing the word used in context,
and etymologies when a word's history may shed light on its
meaning. Special attention is given to easily confused or closely
related words (such as efficacious, effective, effectual, and
efficient, or cynical, sarcastic, sardonic, and ironic). Usage
notes are provided to ensure that readers know how to integrate
these words into their vocabularies for more precision and power in
speech and writing. Produced by a team of experienced
lexicographers, drawing on Oxford's exclusive 200-million-word
database of contemporary English, this handy volume helps us with
the words that lie just outside our vocabulary, words we just won't
find in other pocket dictionaries.
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