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Thousands of overused words and phrases and alternatives to them are compiled in this ultimate writer's reference, composing the perfect companion for those seeking to weed out bland, commonplace content and replace it with crisp, concise prose. Entertaining examples of poor vocabulary make for great browsing while specific cliches and sharper options are also featured. Humorous and enlightening, this updated edition contains more than 100 new entries and 50 new exemplary sentences.

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Readers will cheer his trouncing of cliche, redundancy, and windy generality. -- Dallas Morning News If you want to create fat-free sentences and paragraphs, you will pay heed to Robert Hartwell Fiske's advice. -- Richard Lederer, author, Anguished English Robert Hartwell Fiske adheres admirably to rules that are practical, that facilitate understanding through logic and lucidity, or even just by a sense of decorum that makes speech more communicative and writing more elegant. -- John Simon, New York Magazine Fiske shows how to make the turgid crisp. -- William Safire, New York Times

Fiske shows how to make the turgid crisp. William Safire, New York Times

Fiske shows how to make the turgid crisp. -- William Safire, New York Times

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Robert Hartwell Fiske is the editor and publisher of The Vocabula Review, a journal about the English language, and the author of The Dictionary of Concise Writing. He lives in Rockport, Massachusetts.

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