1000 Most Important Words: For Anyone and Everyone Who Has Something to Say

by Norman W. Schur

Based on the contention that we do not utillize speech to its fullest extent, this guide is an essential aide to unlocking our "passive" vocabularies and developing a keener appreciation of the richness of language.

Indispensable For Writers, Speakers, Teachers!
-- Enrich your vocabulary
-- Express yourself clearly -- and beautifully
-- Fun and easy to use!

Genres: Reference, Writing, Nonfiction, Language, Dictionaries

256 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published July 12, 1982

Reviews

[Ezra Youngren · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice. Got kinda feminist near the end. I like the Latin derivatives though

[Moses · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are some fascinating and useful words, and some great etymological histories, but the example sentences are quite outdated. I don't know what the Entebbe crisis was, or I didn't until I googled it, and most people do not either--but Schur uses at least five different words to describe it.

All in all, a great way to expand your vocabulary. Some great words I learned:

catharsis, atavistic, fey, insouciant, nadir, sublimate, sylph, apotheosis.

[Diana · Rating 4 out of 5]

It would be useful book for somebody who wants to get lots of vocabularies.
There is no doubt that I've learnt valuable self-vocabulary lesson so far.
However this book requires for readers to have as much perseverance as possible since there's no picture or few interesting editorial setting.
What I want to remark about this book is, it's a good book to cram many words and useful idioms through various example texts(as suggested in the book) in a traditional way.
All the vocabularies are listed in alphabetical way.

One thing I want to suggest is, if there has an "Index category" at the last part, it would be much better for learners to revise and wrap up the words.

Despite of this weakpoint, I should admit that this book helps me enrich my vocabulary skill and broaden the linguistic arena (although it's not fun and easy way, haha).

[Brian · Rating 5 out of 5]

I didn't expect it to be this good. Mr. Schur has an excellent selection that I wish I could have memorized. This is a vocab selection every writer should have in his back pocket. The definitions are also lean more to the 'Devil's Dictionary' style and away from the Meriam-Webster style. Fun.

[J Crossley · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you are looking to improve your vocabulary, this book will definitely help. I found the paperback version unwieldy, so I purchased the Kindle version.

[Charlie Cray · Rating 3 out of 5]

Every once in a while it's good to breeze through a modest-sized dictionary like this.

[Andulmoiz]

I think it's a superb book.