Folks, this thread is being seriously neglected.
The Word I'm Thinking Of: A Devilish Dictionary of Difficult Words. By Michael Gates. Print list price $7.50; Digital list price $4.99; Kindle price $0.00. Rated five stars out of 5 from 5 customer reviews at the present moment.
http://www.amazon.com/Word-Im-Thinki...ifficult+Words.
Absquatulate. Flumadiddle. Gongoozler. Squintifego. If you love words, you know the strange byways of memory or reverie that stumbling across a certain word or phrase will take you down, especially if it's one you're discovering and finding the meaning of for the first time. Chances are, you have never encountered words as unusual as those collected in this 170-page book.
You'll find definitions and parts of speech for each entry. And for each word, the author has also included a quotation to show how the word can be used in context. His hope is that this book will spark interest in these ostrobogulous words and that you will use them in your daily conversations--perhaps as a humorous social-science experiment to see what kinds of reactions you receive. Amaze your friends with your selcouth vocabulary and indulge your inner logophile!
A funny--the four unusual words used in the book description are so obscure that the spellchecker did not recognize them.