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    Jack's Handy List of Words: 607 Words That You Can't (or Shouldn't) Live Without
    Jack's Handy List of Words: 607 Words That You Can't (or Shouldn't) Live Without
    Jack's Handy List of Words: 607 Words That You Can't (or Shouldn't) Live Without
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    Jack's Handy List of Words: 607 Words That You Can't (or Shouldn't) Live Without

    By Jack Forbes

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    Why allow yourself to be dominated linguistically by the lowest common denominator? If the 607 words in this book have fallen out of common use in the English language, it is neither from design nor function; it is from too many of us being reluctant to use a word which our listeners or readers might not understand. Jack's Handy List of Words, an
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    PublisherJack A. Fleischli
    Release dateOct 24, 2014
    ISBN9780983641810
    Jack's Handy List of Words: 607 Words That You Can't (or Shouldn't) Live Without
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    Jack Forbes

    JACK FORBES was born and raised in Long Beach California. He graduated from Long Beach Wilson High School with Honors and received his Bachelor of Arts Degree, Dean's List, in Political Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Jack received his Juris Doctor Degree, Cum Laude, from Pepperdine University, School of Law. Jack is the writer, producer, publisher and vocalist on three albums of music on internet websites around the world: WARNING One False Move; WARNING Dangerous Moves; and WARNING Road to Somewhere. His fourth album is well underway. Jack is an accomplished, professional television and film actor. He surfs, plays badminton, snow skies and plays ice hockey, among other sports.

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      Jack's Handy List of Words - Jack Forbes

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      JACK'S

      HANDY LIST

      OF

      WORDS

      607 Words That You Can’t

      (or Shouldn’t) Live Without

      JACK FORBES

      JAFO Publishing

      375 Redondo Avenue

      PMB 320

      Long Beach, CA 90814

      Jack's Handy List of Words

      607 Words That You Can't

      (or Shouldn't) Live Without

      Copyright © 2011

      ISBN: 978-0-9836418-1-0

      Published in the United States by

      JAFO PUBLISHING

      All rights are reserved, but for permitted use by the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976. Copyrighted © no part of this publication may be distributed, reproduced, stored or transmitted in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form without the prior written permission of the copyright owner.

      Printed in the United States of America © 2011

      Design & Typography: Redmond & Associates

      M. Redmond—K. Thomas—R. Korns

      www.marioncreative.com

      Contact—Website Information:

      www.JafoPublishing.com

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Preface

      A

      B

      C

      D

      E

      F

      G

      H

      I

      J

      K

      L

      M

      N

      O

      P

      Q

      R

      S

      T

      U

      V

      W

      X

      Y

      Z

      PREFACE

      Do you suffer incessant collywobbles when confronting concupiscence? Have you deprecated your daily speech to a precipitous prattle of plentiful platitudes?  Are your daily diatribes mired in vacuous truculence?

      But even so, do you fear losing your laconic moniker?  Would others condemn you as a bombastic blatherskite or fatuous flibbertigibbet if you seriously enhanced your linguistic endowment?  Perhaps you are concerned that oratorical foes might accuse you of catachresis or circumlocution.  Would your enigmatic speech precipitate multitudinous kerfluffles?  Could it possibly be pernicious to emerge perspicacious?

      Gentle persons please – absolve yourself, once and for all, of this ineffable Gordian knot, engage your nascent potential, cast off that sanctimonious reticence, abandon all vicissitudes, and rejoice – for true knowledge is propinquitous. So, seize the orgiastic afflatus, reject antinomy, extirpate extraneous diffidence, disembrangle your intellect, act audaciously and personally subsume Jack’s Handy List of Words.  When you master the contents within, you will seamlessly engage in mellifluous banter and may appropriately treat yourself to a well-deserved oblation.

      Please Note: This is a collection of mostly everyday words which are slightly off the radar. Many readers will recognize many of the words, but not exhibit complete confidence in their meaning and usage.  This book is intended to fix that shortcoming and propel the reader into a much stronger and varied vocabulary.  Words which are primarily scientific in nature, however, are, with rare exception, not included – you should take a science course instead.  Also, there are some words, marked by a ** which are not in contemporary use, but are so interesting they cried out to be included. Okay, so back to the word play…

      Even if you are relatively impecunious, unless you are also incorrigibly parsimonious, the requisite emolument to purchase this book is trifling.

      Jack Forbes — Writer/Actor

      A

      Abdicate vt. – to relinquish power formally.

      The apoplectic leader abdicated power and fled the country.

      Abject adj. – of the most miserable or contemptible kind.

      The beggars lived in abject poverty.

      Abnegate vt. – to deny oneself; renounce.

      He abnegated liquor from his diet.

      Abrogate vt. – to abolish or annul by authority.

      The statute was effectively abrogated by judicial interpretation.

      Absolve vt. – to pronounce clear of blame or guilt.

      His girlfriend magnanimously absolved him of the illicit affair, then insisted on an early wedding date.

      Accolade n. – an embrace of greeting or salutation.

      Jack arrived at the Oscars to tumultuous accolades.

      Accretion n. – any growth or increase in size by gradual external addition.

      The terrorist group expanded by insidious accretion.

      Acidulous adj. – biting in nature; caustic.

      The crass patrol officer acidulously berated the black motorist. 

      Acrimonious adj. – characterized by or exhibiting anger or resentment.

      The lawyer’s acrimonious style was only too banal of an adversarial tactic.

      Acropolis n. – the fortified citadel of Athens in ancient Greece.

      The forward guard stormed the acropolis, while peasants slipped quietly away into the woods.

      Adipose n. – fat or fatty.

      Adipose thrust itself through every imaginable crevice of her corset.

      Adulation n. – patronizing flattery.

      The President received the undulating adulation with

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