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Table of ContentsForeword: The Power of Word Power Lessons
Power Up: So You Want a Power Vocabulary
Section I: Words You Really Ought to Know
Lesson 1: Would You Abdicate or Advocate?
Lesson 2: Climb Every Mountain
Lesson 3: Peaceniks
Lesson 4: Love Me, Love My Writing
Lesson 5: Was She a Diva or a Dupe?
Lesson 6: Eric the Eccentric
Lesson 7: Send in the Clones
Lesson 8: Her Lucky Break
Lesson 9: Slumming It
Lesson 10: Justin Time
Lesson 11: Everyone Knows It's Windy
Lesson 12: Safari, So Good
Lesson 13: To Catch a Thief
Lesson 14: Drain, Baby, Drain!
Lesson 15: A Provincial Precept or a Pretentious Precept?
Lesson 16: Is Randi Raucous, Resilient, or Resplendent?
Lesson 17: Is Chris's Attitude Stoic or Sardonic?
Lesson 18: Politics -- Tedious or Odious?
Lesson 19: Was Tanya's Tryst a Torturous Travesty or Just Trite?
Lesson 20: Is Van Virulently Verbose?
Section II: Harder Words You Really Ought to Know
Lesson 21: With Accolades or Accoutrements?
Lesson 22: Is This Therapist Assiduous, Ascetic, or Apoplectic?
Lesson 23: Was the Bathos Bilious?
Lesson 24: Was the Conflagration Chemical or Chimerical?
Lesson 25: Is a Diaspora a Deleterious Debacle?
Lesson 26: Is Diurnal Ennui Endemic in Transylvania?
Lesson 27: Is Erik Erudite or Ethnocentric?
Lesson 28: The Garrulous Gamine Also Gesticulated!
Lesson 29: Can Homeopathy Cure an Ignominious Past?
Lesson 30: Libidinous Libations or Military Machinations?
Lesson 31: A Mirthful or Miasmic Milieu?
Lesson 32: Is Natalie the Nonplussed Neophyte?
Lesson 33: Is the Panegyric an Opus in Patois?
Lesson 34: A Perfidious or Phlegmatic Plebeian?
Lesson 35: Is Protean Paulo Also Punctilious?
Lesson 36: Is a Raffish and Ribald Repartee Enough?
Lesson 37: Will Sasha Sally Towards a Sagacious Story?
Lesson 38: Is Sy a Stalwart Spelunker, or a Simpering Sycophant?
Lesson 39: Is Tendentious Todd Temporizing?
Lesson 40: Is Zaftig Zillia Like a Zephyr?
Section III: Really, Really Hard Words (For Word Nerds Only)
Lesson 41: Is Angie's Agathism the Opposite of Atheism?
Lesson 42: Is the Arriviste Bilious or Atrabilious?
Lesson 43: Does Bibulous Braggadocio Befit a Bellwether?
Lesson 44: Did the Claque Clap at the Clique's Canard?
Lesson 45: Did David Desire a Demimonde or a Demitasse?
Lesson 46: Ellie Rules with éclat and Eclairs!
Lesson 47: Is Gregory a Galoot or a Grig?
Lesson 48: Evan, Inured to the Ineluctable and Ineffable!
Lesson 49: Lachrymose Logan Loved Leanna
Lesson 50: Did Marty's Minions Mouth a Moue or a Moo?
Lesson 51: Is Pappas a Parvenu?
Lesson 52: Phillipe, the Proselytizing Poltroon
Lesson 53: Were the Satraps Sequacious or Loquacious?
Lesson 54: Thomas -- Not a Temerarious Tatterdemalion
Lesson 55: Did Willow Welter, Wither, or Winnow?
Appendix: Root Juice