Heehler, Tom <br/><br/>
The well-spoken thesaurus :  the most powerful ways to say everyday words and phrases / 
Tom Heehler. 
 - Naperville, Ill. :  Sourcebooks,  c2011. 
 - 391 p. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>On Becoming Articulate<br/>Rhetorical Form and Design<br/>Lesson 1. T.S. Eliot<br/>Lesson 2. Margaret Atwood<br/>Lesson 3. Ernest Hemingway<br/>Lesson 4. Cormac McCarthy<br/>Lesson 5. John Steinbeck<br/>Lesson 6. Norman Mailer<br/>Lesson 7. Edith Wharton<br/>Lesson 8. E.B. White<br/>Lesson 9. J.M. Coetzee<br/>Lesson 10. John Steinbeck<br/>Lesson 11. Barbara Kingsolver<br/>Lesson 12. Joshua Ferris<br/>Lesson 13. Ken Kesey<br/>Lesson 14. Martin Luther King, Jr<br/>Lesson 15. Henry James<br/>Lesson 16. Barack Obama<br/>Lesson 17. Cintra Wilson<br/>The Well-Spoken Vocabulary<br/>The Seven Rhetorical Sins<br/>How This Book Works<br/>Preamble<br/>The Well-Spoken Thesaurus<br/>200 Well-Spoken Alternatives to Common Words and Phrases<br/> 
<br/><br/> If you've ever fumbled while trying to use a big word* (*lofty, pretentious word) to impress a crowd, you know what it's like to* (*what it is to) be poorly spoken. The fear of mispronouncing or misusing complex words is real and leaves many of us consigned to the lower levels* (*lower echelons) of the English Language.  The Well-Spoken Thesaurus is your guide to eloquence, replacing the ordinary with the extraordinary. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781402243059 1402243057 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>1318381  QBI 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010047798 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>015674180  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English language--Synonyms and antonyms.<br/>English language--Terms and phrases.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Dictionaries.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PE1591  / H458w 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>423/.12