Charles Harrington Elster

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Charles Harrington Elster is a writer, broadcaster, and logophile—a lover of words. He is the author and narrator of the audio vocabulary-building program Verbal Advantage and the book by the same name. His other books include Tooth and Nail and Test of Time, vocabulary-building novels for high school students preparing to take the college entrance exams; There's a Word for It, a lighthearted look at unusual—and unusually useful—words; and The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations, which William Safire of The New York Times hailed as "th...read more

Mercinary Embelish Neophyte Impetuous Adroit Fastidious Dearth Brevity Vendetta Allude Adduce Proletariat Solicitous Sensual and sensuous Cursory Incriminate Rescind Perquisite Laity Catagorical Accede Admonish Pittance Ingratiating Commiserate Inscrutable Dilemma Pugnacious Myopic Ambivalent Commonly mispronounced words Diffident Vicissitude Platitude Circumscribe Pensive Fallacious Discussion of abusage Defenestrate Bucolic Acerbic Chimera Desiccated Ebullience Impute Cataclysm Eschew Conversant Cull Squalid Proper pronunciation Sophistry Droll English plurals derived from latin and greek Sciolist Impromptu Bombastic Prolix Cupidity Rapprochement Succor Lissome Mellifluous Apocryphal Narcisism Altruism Genteel Pontificate More or less Callow Myriad Number and amount Garrulous Laws of vocabulary development Insouciant Disingenuous Denouement Nonage Surfeit Vapid Temerity Martinet Tantamount Blandishment Idiosyncrasy Efface Ostentatious Chrysalis Greek roots Noctivagant Putting your new words into action Attest Fuliginous The concept of usage itself Nomenclature Supercilious Iconoclast Ostracize Disparage Xenophobia Stricture Quotidian Mordant Quixotic Mnemonic Offal Predilection Lethargy Philanthropic Colloquial Legerdemain Cavil Avuncular Promulgate Vindictive Plexiform Final suggestions Objurgation Cacophony Munificence Puissant Didactic Recrudescence Indefeasible Truncate English plurals Crotchet Imbroglio Epigraph Stigma Clairvoyant Jovial Dishabille Exigemcy Puerile Exemplary Fetid Laudable Hispid Jextapose Arrascible Susurrus Protean Nostrum Discursive Lucid Jaded Calumny Lugubrious Infinitesimal Edify Epicene Tergiversation Troglodite Turbid Engender Hortatory Supplicate Scarify The word impact Pettifogger The long word Nepetism Wizened Enendation Hebetude Parvenu Sciamachy Rodomontade Peripatetic Badinage Cynosure Use of the word done Level review Intro to greek Foreign expressions Gode Talking about feelings Building vocabulary Sound alike syndrome Level six wrap up Vogue words Misuse of adverbs Wonderful world of eponyms Intro level six Closing Program benefits About dictionaries Becoming a cultivated speaker

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