title: Writer's Digest Flip Dictionary
author:  Barbara Ann Kipfer 
description: "Omit needless words," intone Strunk and White in <I>The Elements of Style</I>; "use definite, specific, concrete language." In order to use the best word for the job, though, you have to know it. The <I>Flip Dictionary</I> is full of words you may have forgotten and words you never knew, all accessed by their meaning. Look up "mounds and hills, with," and you will find <I>tumulus</I>. Search "the ropes connecting the harness and the canopy of a parachute," and you'll find <I>shrouds</I>. There's no need to say "lowest point in orbit" when you can say <I>perigee</I>, or "lowest deck of a ship" when you can say <I>orlop</I>. We don't know when we'd ever find a chance to use the word <I>tomally</I>, but we like knowing the one word out there that means "lobster liver." And, oh, the lists! Of apples and art movements, beers and birding terms, constellations and clothes (including 47 kinds of shirt), fears and ferns. The same caveats apply as with the use of a thesaurus: some of the definitions are a bit off ("hater" is vague for <I>misanthrope</I>), others are rather informal (<I>boner</I>, for instance, to mean "error"), and still others are so specific that you will want to be sure that you truly have found the right word for the job. Great fun. <I>--Jane Steinberg</I>
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  Title: The Jolliest Term on Record  
  A Story of School Life  
    
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