TY - BOOK AU - Bly, Robert W. TI - The Words you should know to sound smart : : 1,200 essential words every sophisticated person should be able to use SN - 13: 978-1-59869-886-2 AV - 428.1 B62w c2009 PY - 2009/// CY - Avon, MA PB - Adams Media KW - English language KW - Glossaries, vocabularies, etc KW - Vocabulary N2 - A tongue-in-cheek guide to words that a smart, well-educated, pretentious person should be able to drop into cocktail conversation. It helps the reader to toss off words such as `Disestablishmentarianism`, `descant`, and `autodidactic`, proving, if not the value of a good education, at least the appearance of a good education ER -