I Always Look up the Word 'Egregious' Author:Maxwell Nurnberg Armed with a red pencil, scissors, tape, and index cards, author Maxwell Nurnberg spent years scouring The New York Times, the The New Yorker, and the New York Review of Books, with the aim of creating a new kind of vocabulary book. The result is a veritable panoply of words -- drawn from the real-life context of written... more » and spoken language.« less
Lots of interesting words. Aranged by subject. Here's a sampling: obloquy, tendentious,lucubration, velleity, pilpul. Each word has a quote in which it is used and a definition.