Pocket Posh Word Power: 120 Words You Should Know

by Angela Tung (Editor), Heather Bailey (Illustrator)

Words such as propinquity, armillary, and farrago should be vocabulary staples. Consult Pocket Posh Word Power: 120 Words You Should Know to determine other additions to your lexicon.

This Pocket Posh Word Power collection promises a gargantuan vocabulary boost. Each entry provides pronunciation, part of speech, definition, usage in a sentence, and etymology information.

236 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 31, 2011

About the author

Angela Tung is a writer in San Francisco. Her work has appeared in CNN Living, The Frisky, Dark Sky Magazine, Matador Life, The New York Press and elsewhere.

Her latest book, Black Fish: Memoir of a Bad Luck Girl, chronicles the failed marriage between a Chinese woman and Korean man, both American-born but still bound by old world traditions. Black Fish was short-listed for Graywolf Press' 2010 Nonfiction Prize.

In addition, she's a writer/editor at Wordnik.com, an online word source, and has an MA in Creative Writing from Boston University.