Words A Users Guide – Test Bank

Lexicon: A Consumer’s Guide is an easily accessible and priceless reference that’s excellent for learners, business individuals, and advanced users of English language. The guide is organized in sets of words that may be mixed up because they sound similar, appear similar, or seem to have comparable meanings, and this approach makes it much more intuitive and easy to utilize than a dictionary. Distinguishing over 5000 words (such as livable and inhabitable, precipitation and rainfall, reigns and reins), Lexicon: a Consumer’s Guide provides instances of usage adapted from large national databases of contemporary English, and illustrates each headword in typical contexts and phrases. This guide offers you straightforward solutions, and aids with pronunciation, spelling, style, and levels of formality. For those operating internationally, it presents global standards and compares usage in Britain and the USA. Lexicon: A Consumer’s Guide is an outstanding resource for anyone who desires to communicate effectively in written and spoken English.  ‘Finally! A guide about the use of words that clears up and demystifies in an eminently usable manner.  I’d endorse it to anyone who desires to write well. It’s a guide to keep.’ Sandy Gilkes, Head of the Centre for Educational Practice, University of Northampton ‘Rigorous, contemporary, intriguing and downright useful, it deserves a place on every properly stocked reference shelf.’   Brian Cathcart, Professor of Journalism, Kingston University  ‘From the pedantic to the permissive, everyone who’s in the English language and the way we communicate and write it will need a copy of this practical, enjoyable guide.’ Wynford Hicks (author of Quite Literally and The Basics of English Utilization)