Dictionary of the Most Advanced Words

Enrich your vocabulary!
The Dictionary of the Most Advanced Words focuses on enriching the speaker’s vocabulary with
advanced, demanding or difficult words, which are often encountered in literature and contemporary
texts of various subject areas. Such words, while outside most people’s everyday vocabulary, are used
at a higher communication level, when a more creative, powerful, learned and precise language is
needed.

The dictionary includes 4.000 entries, followed by clear, simple and concise definitions, selected
synonyms and phrases. All entries are provided with reliable etymological information. About 300
usage notes provide insight into common mistakes, differences between closely related or confused
words, and meet the needs of the most demanding readers.

A key factor of the dictionary is marked by its 15.000 examples (most of them drew on authentic
material, especially from databases and a wide range of various current sources). Apart from its value
to the dictionary’s reliability, this collection of examples assists the reader to realise how each word is
used, how it appears in real speech and writing and illustrate its meaning, lexical context, grammatical
construction and style.
Of great importance is the use of more than 1.100 selected citations from named sources (i.e. major
writers from Modern Greek literature, such as Papadiamantis, Elytis, Palamas, Seferis etc.) featured in
the dictionary. These quotations provide immense and in-depth evidence of the literary development of
the words.
The Dictionary of the Most Advanced Words is a handy reference tool to enrich our vocabulary and
integrate into our speech and writing distinctive features of demanding and quality language.
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