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DICTIONARY OF DIFFICULT WORDS - Hardback Book

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What is a bumbershoot? Or a moonbow? And what does it mean when someone absquatulates...? Find out all this and more in The Dictionary of Difficult Words.

Test your knowledge with 
more than 400 words to amaze, confuse and inspire budding wordsmiths (and adults). All of the words featured in this book are difficult to spell, hard to say and their meanings are obscure to most children (and most adults)! You can master them with the simple, easy-to-understand definitions and pronunciations written by lexicographer (yes, that's in there too!) Jane Solomon. Fun, colourful illustrations add whimsy to the pages.

Some jobbernowls say dictionaries are anachronistic, or even obsolete, but it's kenspeckle to real bibliophiles that those vociferous ninnyhammers are just metagrobolised by the plethora of portmanteaus, neologisms and jargon they offer. Next time you find yourself wrangling with one of these ultracrepidarians, no need to imagineer a sockdolager: just show them this book.

Customer Reviews (5.0 / 5 · 3 reviews)

Robert I. ★★★★★

My eight-year-old loves quirky words and this book is perfect—she spent an hour flipping through just to find the weirdest entries. The hardback cover feels sturdy enough for her backpack, and the definitions are clear without being boring.

Zoe ★★★★★

I bought this for a trivia-loving friend, and we spent an hour laughing over words like "absquatulate." The hardback cover feels sturdy enough to survive coffee spills, which is a bonus.

Sophia ★★★★★

My kid's vocabulary has exploded since we got this—they love testing me on "absquatulate" at dinner. The hardback cover feels sturdy enough for the constant flipping through pages. We've already learned over a hundred words, and the moonbow entry sparked a whole science lesson.