title: Word Smart II, 2nd Edition (Smart Guides)
author:  Adam Robinson 
description: Some interesting word facts:<br /><br />? The word "noisome" had nothing whatsoever to do with noise.<br />? "Ordinance" and "ordnance" have two distinct meanings.<br />? An "errant" fool is a fool who is lost, while and "arrant" fool is one whose foolishness is obvious.<br /><br /><b>Word Smart II </b>exposes hundreds of examples like these, so readers will never be surprised by vocabulary again. More than 70,000 people have improved their vocabularies with the original <b>Word Smart</b>, but an educated and powerful vocabulary doesn't stop growing with one book. All of the 848 entries in <b>Word Smart II</b> belong in an impressive vocabulary. Learning and using these words effectively can help readers to get better grades, score higher on tests, and communicate more confidently at work.<br /><br /><i>Includes:</i><br /><br />? A special emphasis on correct pronunciation<br />? New exercises to help readers learn and remember words<br />? Two extra chapters that focus on the words most frequently found on the SAT and other standardized tests.
zlib_text: JAMES ALAN GARDNER - HUNTED
  v1.0 [17-May-02] Scanned by ???, full proof by 4i Publications.
  To Rob and Carolyn,
  for getting me started in the Show,
  then continuing to cheer from the stands
  THANKS
  Thanks to the usual crew: Linda Carson, Richard Curtis, and Jennifer Brehl. For continuing support,  a big thank-you
  too to Andy Heidel and Lou Aronica.
  Since I'm writing this in 1999, I'd like to thank the developers of Microsoft Word for DOS  5.0,  still  the  most  useful
  word processor for a fiction writer; and then I'd like to whack those  same developers upside the head for not making
  the software Y2K-compliant.  Come  December  31,  I'll  have  to  switch  to  some  elephantine  replacement  that  thinks  it
  knows what I want... when what I want is a decent thesaurus,  intelligent use of style sheets,  and a user interface that
  doesn't keep making me take my hands off the keyboard. (Gardner's Third Law: When a particular computer operation
  requires  you  to  use  the  mouse,  you  will 