More Words You Should Know

What’s the difference between “affect” and “effect”?

How about “lay” and “lie”? “Stationery” and “stationary”?

Lots of people need a quick and authoritative way to identify and define the most troublesome common words. But reading dictionaries is no one’s idea of fun! If only there were a list , not of every word, but of the right words, the ones that are used frequently but don’t quite register when you come across them.

More Words You Should Know features straightforward, succinct definitions and sentence examples of 1500 tough-but-common words.