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Book

The dictionary of difficult words

Call Number

  • J 423 SOLO (CEN, OSH)

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Publication Information

Minneapolis, MN : Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2019.

Physical Description

108 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm

Summary

"What is a bumbershoot? Or a moonbow? And what does it mean when someone absquatulates...? Find out all this and more....Test your knowledge with more than 400 words to amaze, confuse, and inspire budding wordsmiths (and adults). All of the words featured...are difficult to spell, hard to say, and their meanings are obscure to most children (and most adults)! Written with simple, easy-to-understand definitions...celebrates the beauty of the English language for family trivia time spent around the printed page"--Page [4] of cover.

Notes

Cover title.

"With more than 400 perplexing words to test your wits!"--Cover.

Subjects

Added Authors

Louise Lockhart