Wit, Style & Substance: Common uncommon words in writing and conversation

Wit, style, & substance are what attract us to good writers and good speakers. Wit, Style, & Substance exemplifies how some 3200+ interesting words make it possible:

Wit - be it subtle humor, subversive commentary, or an argumentative tool
Style - the writer's clothing, composure, and cachet
Substance -making a point with candor or subterfuge, but always with well-chosen words

To be truly effective as a vocabulary building tool, as well as an engaging read, over 3000 illuminating quotes are included throughout this work: from Jon Stewart to Plato, F. Scott Fitzgerald to Shakespeare; from Mark Twain to Voltaire, Charles Krauthammer to Abe Lincoln; from Anon to William F. Buckley Jr., and George Will to Ozzy Osbourne. In all, over 1000 individuals, along with their associated words and a short bio, are listed in an "Index of Quoted Authors and Their Words" at the back of the book. And whether you're cramming for the GRE General Test or if English is not your first language, you will find that this book offers helpful usage examples.