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Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Words to Describe People I opsimath ( agelast ( losel ( nebbish ( cruciverbalist 2 Earls Who Became Words (or Places That Became Words) orrery ( cadogan ( Oxfordian ( derby ( Yarborough 3 Words Having Origins in Chess zugzwang ( checkmate ( gambit ( stalemate ( endgame 4 Words That Appear to be Misspellings of Everyday Words I passible ( monestrous ( cloture ( nutriment ( assoil 5 Archaic Words clepe ( sennight ( anon ( gainsay ( hearken 6 Toponyms Chautauqua ( Pax Romana ( Gibraltar ( seltzer ( Kilkenny cats 7 Words About Books And Writing roman a clef ( orihon ( amphigory ( conspectus ( magnum opus 8 Words Borrowed From Yiddish chutzpah ( mensch ( zaftig ( kvetch ( schlep 9 Terms From the World of Law estoppel ( laches ( solatium ( sui juris ( mittimus 10 Words That Appear to be a Misspelling of Everyday Words II eagre ( imprest ( endue ( biennial ( quacksalver 11 Words Borrowed From Arabic alembic ( nadir ( jihad ( houri ( talisman 12 Words Formed Erroneously niddering ( obsidian ( helpmeet ( zenith ( derring-do 13 What's in a Name? randy ( tony ( ted ( bobby ( brad 14 Words From Poetry cataract ( dreary ( nosegay ( collyrium ( tarry 15 Fishy Words minnow ( gudgeon ( remora ( inconnu ( tope 16 Discover the Theme I ubiety ( irade ( ambit ( estival ( lanate 17 Terms Employing Various Nationalities French leave ( Chinese wall ( Roman holiday ( Irish bull ( Dutch auction 18 Words With Double Connections diplopia ( double entendre ( ambsace ( satchel 19 Words Related to the Calendar ides ( bissextile ( Greek calends ( menology ( fin de siecle 20 False Friends sacrilegious ( scission ( oust ( impregnable ( mellifluous 21 Red-Herring Words undulate ( fartlek ( conversant ( assize ( valorize 22 Words Related to the Human Body nares ( oxter ( pollex ( nevus ( glossal 23 Words related to Buying and Selling emptor ( nummary ( duopoly ( monopsony ( chandler 24 Miscellaneous Words astrobleme ( pudency ( aporia ( remontant ( loricate 25 Words That Have Changed Meaning With Time demagogue ( decimate ( feisty ( egregious ( officious 26 Words About Words hapax legomenon ( metaphor ( vulgate ( hyperbole ( metaplasm 27 Anglo-Saxon Words meed ( fen ( lief ( fain ( wight 28 Words "Borrowed" From Other Languages cumshaw ( smorgasbord ( baksheesh ( taboo ( honcho 29 Words From Medicine sequela ( nosology ( idiopathy ( placebo ( nyctalopia 30 Numeric Terms sixty-four-dollar question ( eighty-six ( twenty-twenty ( deep-six ( catch-22 31 Kangaroo Words indolent ( rapscallion ( amicable ( frangible ( scion 32 What Does That Company Name Mean? cingular ( lucent ( prudential ( vanguard ( suppurate 33 Words With Interesting Etymologies erudite ( sobriquet ( indite ( pentimento ( cockamamie 34 Words to Describe People II scrofulous ( ugsome ( gormless ( scalawag ( sciolist 35 Words About Collecting and Study of Things scripophily ( deltiology ( exonumia ( notaphily ( vexillology 36 Words From the World of Law II voir dire ( en banc ( parol ( depone ( distrain 37 Words Derived From Other Languages sangfroid ( dragoman ( hinterland ( apparat ( Blighty 38 Words About Words II exonym ( mononym ( cryptonym ( teknonym ( matronym 39 Words Borrowed From African Languages zombie ( veld ( juju ( spoor ( mumbo jumbo 40 Metallic Words Used as Metaphors goldbrick ( silver bullet ( brassy ( leaden ( tin ear 41 Words Related to Movies bogart ( cinematheque ( McGuffin ( jeune premier ( cineaste 42 Discover the Theme II extemporize ( impresario ( macroscopic ( postdiluvian ( plausive 43 Miscellaneous Words telic ( saltant ( conurbation ( trade-last ( tardigrade 44 Words That Aren't What They Appear to Be beestings ( pythoness ( lambent ( redoubt ( archimage 45 Words of Horse-related Origins desultory ( equitant ( tattersall ( spavined ( hors de combat 46 Words of Horse-related Origins II cheval-de-frise ( Hobson's choice ( harridan ( cheval de bataille ( cavalier 47 Words With Origins in War nom de guerre ( antebellum ( polemic ( bellicose ( casus belli 48 Words From Latin stat ( ceteris paribus ( qua ( terra firma ( via media 49 Words to Describe Your Opponents facinorous ( ventripotent ( dasypygal ( saponaceous ( yegg 50 Discover the Theme III orotund ( draggle ( trunnel ( pinnate ( lability 51 Words Borrowed From Native American Languages sachem ( wampum ( high-muck-a-muck ( manitou ( powwow 52 Loanwords from Spanish amigo ( loco ( duende ( disembogue ( armada Answers Web Resources More Fun With Words Index
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Vocabulary.
English language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.