by Adrian Room · Verulam Publishing Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780710210234
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«Dictionary of Confusing Words and Meanings» is Adrian Room's dictionary, published by Verulam Publishing Ltd in paperback (268 pages, in English).
It brings together some 3,000 English words that are confused or misused because of their similarity, and distinguishes them with clear explanations. The work includes entries such as banister/baluster, brusque/brisk or luxurious/luxuriant, along with many others, and can be read as a reference guide for resolving vocabulary doubts.
Published in 1986, the book is a revised and expanded version combining Adrian Room's earlier dictionaries, Confusibles and Distinguishables.
Aimed at students, writers and general readers who want to use English more precisely.
Adrian Richard West Room was a British toponymist and onomastician, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a prolific author of reference works relating primarily to the origins of words and place-names.
