Hill Robert H. The Wordsworth Dictionary of Difficult Words

Anchor, 2009, ISBN: 0767922700, 416 pages. From one of America's most beloved and bestselling authors, a wonderfully useful and readable guide to the problems of the English language most commonly encountered by editors and writers. What is the difference between immanent and imminent? What is the singular form of graffiti? What is the difference between acute and chronic?...

3rd edition. — Facts on File, 2005. — 644 p. Helping writers, students, researchers, and general readers when they're left scrambling for words, this thematic dictionary picks up where other references leave off. Completely updated, this easy-to-use third edition is an invaluable resource when looking for a descriptive or technical term, when a person knows the word but not...