Root Words

Brought to you by Penguin. Susie Dent, bestselling author, broadcaster and word expert, is on a mission to find light in the deepest, darkest corners of our language. It takes just a short browse through the dictionary to spot how it is filled with negative words. But Susie has searched far and...

Whether it's the distress of a bad haircut (AGE-OTORI) or longing for the food someone else is eating (GROAKING), the pleasure found in other people's happiness (CONFELICITY) or the shock of jumping into icy water (CURGLAFF), there are real words to pinpoint exactly how you feel and Susie Dent, Queen of Countdown's Dictionary Corner and lexicographer extraordinaire, is going to help you find them. Here are 1001 terms everyone needs, whether it's the best kind of hug (CWTCH), the relief found in swearing (LALOCHEZIA), or the ability to endure till the end (PERTOLERANCE).

Bigger & Fancier Words gives you one impressive word a day, but this time the vocabulary is turned up a notch. These aren’t just words to know—they’re words to drop casually into conversations to sound suspiciously brilliant. Every word comes with a clear definition, a hilariously memorable sentence, plus synonyms and antonyms to round it all out. That’s right—your brain is about to get a vocabulary glow-up.

So basically this audiobook has a lot of highfalutin, big shot, 52 cent words that are not used that often in normal conversations (or are they?). Once you learn them you will start to hear and see them all the time in books and movies and when eavesdropping on people's conversations. This audiobook comes complete with 366 words, for every day of the year (plus one extra word for leap year). It has word type, definitions, and a funny example sentence that hopefully gives you a little chuckle and helps you to remember that particular word more easily.

HOW MUCH IS YOUR FAITH MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN YOUR LIFE? If you take the Sermon on the Mount and overlay it with the book of James, you’ll find oodles of connection. Penned by the beloved half-brother of Jesus, James sounds more like Jesus than any other New Testament writer. The short letter...