TY  - BOOK
AU  - Heehler,Tom
TI  - The well-spoken thesaurus: the most powerful ways to say everyday words and phrases 
SN  - 9781402243059
AV  - PE1591 H458w 2011
U1  - 423/.12 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Naperville, Ill.
PB  - Sourcebooks
KW  - English language
KW  - Synonyms and antonyms
KW  - Terms and phrases
KW  - Dictionaries
KW  - lcgft
N1  - On Becoming Articulate
Rhetorical Form and Design
Lesson 1. T.S. Eliot
Lesson 2. Margaret Atwood
Lesson 3. Ernest Hemingway
Lesson 4. Cormac McCarthy
Lesson 5. John Steinbeck
Lesson 6. Norman Mailer
Lesson 7. Edith Wharton
Lesson 8. E.B. White
Lesson 9. J.M. Coetzee
Lesson 10. John Steinbeck
Lesson 11. Barbara Kingsolver
Lesson 12. Joshua Ferris
Lesson 13. Ken Kesey
Lesson 14. Martin Luther King, Jr
Lesson 15. Henry James
Lesson 16. Barack Obama
Lesson 17. Cintra Wilson
The Well-Spoken Vocabulary
The Seven Rhetorical Sins
How This Book Works
Preamble
The Well-Spoken Thesaurus
200 Well-Spoken Alternatives to Common Words and Phrases

N2  - 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
ER  -