The Quintessential
Dictionary

A vocabulary book rather than a reference dictionary: 1,200 words “you should know to make your writing and speaking elegant, precise, confident”, each entry built out with quoted usages. Copyright 1978 by Hart Publishing Company; this is the WARNER BOOKS EDITION, first Warner printing September 1984, published by arrangement with A&W Publishers. Dedicated “To that QUINTESSENTIAL woman, my wife Betty”. The lightest book in the collection, and the only one aimed at the general reader rather than the student or specialist.