The Dictionary of Difficult Words: With More Than 400 Perplexing Words to Test Your Wits!
No. of pages 112
Published: 2019
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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)! Written with simple, easy-to-understand definitions by lexicographer Jane Solomon, this dictionary celebrates the beauty of the English language for family trivia time spent around the printed page.
This book has been graded for interest at 8-12 years.
There are 112 pages in this book. This is a reference book. This book was published 2019 by Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd .
Jane Solomon is a lexicographer based in Oakland, California. She spends her days writing definitions and working on various projects for Dictionary. com. She's a member of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee, the group that decides what new emoji pop up on our devices. Jane has a twin sister who is also a lexicographer. LOUISE LOCKHART is an illustrator who lives in an old English mill town. She sells her illustrations and cut outs in her online shop "The Printed Peanut. "