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Title: a word lovers fantasy come true
Review: I found this book years ago, even then in a used bookstore. I'd moved beyond all those dull "How to Improve Your Vocabulary Books", but picked it up anyway... and was so delighted. It makes for wonderful reading, even though it's a dictionary. The words in it are vibrant and complex and utilizable. A definition is provided of a given word, say, "saturnine", or "quiescent", and then examples of how the word appears in various texts are listed beneath. My one quarrel with the book is that too many of the examples seem to have been taken from the same sources; I wish Hunsberger had cast his reading net a bit wider. Nevertheless, the examples are wonderfully readable and truly do educate you about the various shadings of the words lucky enough to appear here.
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