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100 Words To Make You Sound Smart

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-02-13
Summary: "Pedantic anachronism"

I am often asked by parents to recommend a quick fix when they feel that their kids are slacking in English. I recommend this compendium because of its catchy title: if the kids get intimidated, they will not develop a neurosis. The caveat I give parents is that this is just one of the many compendiums they should acquire. This one merely gets kids started. Start from the top, as the title implies, and work your way downwards. These are the appropriate words of encouragement for the vocabulary-challenged kid. Hopefully, they will move on to more useful 1000 word or 3000 word compendiums, or to the many books written for SAT and GMAT.

I often regret the advice I gave. We all know the best way to improve vocabulary is to read more, which is not practical with the workload of students today. The best practical way is to study the set English Literature text intensely, thus scoring marks for Literature concurrently. For some paranormal reason, small books like "100 words" have a way of bouncing onto the table, while staid books remain on the shelves. This book is like a steroid which keeps calling attention to itself.

If this book shows where the horizon is, it merits 5 stars. As a vocabulary steroid, it cannot build mass quickly. For a book published in 2006, it is a pedantic anachronism. Any critical person can find at least 10 terms which should not be there, and that is a massive 10% of 100 words. Even if you knew how to use the words, your target audience might not appreciate them. I would feel embarrassed to use terms like "ennui", "Svengali" or "brogue". If I were in a University in Britain or America, I believe people would give me a mocking look which says "are you stupid or something, can you not use a simpler word?"

Why would I want to inflict words like "cloying","finagle", "dilettante" or "boondogle" when more colourful expressions for the same are readily available. Our vocabulary-challenged kid, who cannot use many of these terms on a regular basis, is going to forget them easily. "Indelicate" is self-explanatory and its usage will fail to make the user sound smart. Words like "angst", "maudlin", "gregarious", "equivocate", "sycophant", "philistine" and "peevish" are slowly working themselves out of common usage. You would hardly expect to find them in syndicated articles from the New York Times, Washington Post, Economist, Newsweek, LAT, CSM and other mainstream media. I would be surprised if more than 75 of the words surfaced this year in the Huffington Post or the Guardian, or on popular TV series or movies.

If the Editors would replace about 25 distracting words, this book contains some delightful confirmations of words which should be used more often. "Infinitesimal","Quintessential", "Minimalist", "Machiavellian", are staples often used by other people who want to sound smart; I need to stay abreast of them. "Untenable" is useful when you want to say your boss has a dumb idea. It is good know the cliched terms like "dichotomy", and also "Dishevelled" as news reports use Dishevelled readily on celebrities. "Esoteric" is useful, but missing is "Eclectic" which is bandied about quite often in talent programmes such as "American Idol" and "America's Got Talent". And if you really need to be told about "antidote" and "waft", your vocabulary is in serious trouble.

"Non sequitur" gained prominence from a comic strip. I have no quarrel with "idyllic", "panacea", "nouveau riche", "paradox", "perfunctory" or even "cacophony", finding these familiar words in new contexts. Two illustrations of usage of your 100 top words is manifestly insufficient. Improper attempts at using these 100 words without understanding their fullest implications will clearly lead to language "faux pas" (the pronounciation of the plural is thankfully included). That assuredly will make the misuser sound stupid.

I suppose everybody has an individualised opinion of their 100 most impressive words. These 100 words look like they came off a computer analysis, rather than from the gut feeling of Editors on top of linguistic paradigms (speaking of which, "paradigm" was not included).

As a personal observation, I note that kids who attend Church regularly pick up quite an ample vocabulary from Pastors. When I meet the parents again, and they tell me they have bought a compendium of vocabulary expanding words, I sense linguistic redemption. Even half of 100 words is a good start. If they brought the book with them, I tell them which was the better half - there is an index of the 100 words in bold on the last page.

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-02-04
Summary: "good for everyone"

My young professional kids fought over these at Christmas. I bought two as stocking stuffers and they were using the words to play a game to see who could speak more intellegently than the other. They had lots of fun with them. This book is very helpful and practical.

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-12-15
Summary: "100 words to make you sound smart"

I bought the book because my daughter's teacher was giving them words out of the book, however, I am a secretary and I was familiar with all the words in the book except for a couple. From what my daughter told me I thought that I would be able to learn new words from the book. Her teacher must have been using other books in addition to this one. Not quite what I expected but I would still give it a good review and it came very quickly and was as described.

Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2009-10-05
Summary: "Not for those with an advanced vocabulary."

I picked up "100 Words" at the Urban Outfitters, and I only needed 10 minutes to realize that the book is not meant to vastly increase an above-average vocabulary. This book is only useful to those possessing a sub par vocabulary. The words presented are easily defined, and most are not worth using in a sentence.

Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2009-09-04
Summary: "Maybee I,m allreddy Smrt ¿"

I was familiar with most of the words, but the format is great.
The word, a definition, an etymology, and a few excepts of its usage are included.
Each word earns respect by getting its own page.
I recommend it, especially for the price. Loaded with value.

Good seller, great transaction.