ISO: A few good adjectives

[Robyn1007]

So, in my new job I am doing a lot of writing and being that it is marketing I need to really jazz it up a bit. I have never been known for very descriptive writing so I'm not surprised that this is an area I need to improve. :o

My boss would like me to obtain for the team (mainly for me though) a book of adjectives. I found one at Borders called "The Highly Selective Dictionary of Golden Adjectives : For the Extraordinarily Literate" but that has been the best I've found. Can anyone here recommend something for me?

TIA
Robyn

[blazedog]

I've always just relied on Rogets Thesaurus -- They vary in verbosity and there is even an on-line version. The on-line isn't quite as extensive but often I can do searches of other words the first search comes up with -- and it's certainly fast since I am already on the computer.

I do have my old bulky Thesaurus on the shelf and sometimes consult it when on-line isn't good enough.

[Ostrlisa]

Roget is still the classic, but you might also want to look at Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms and see which style suits you and your department.

[colleency]

"The Highly Selective Dictionary of Golden Adjectives : For the Extraordinarily Literate"

While I absolutely love that book, I think it might be a little much for business writing. How often will you be able to slip antepenultimate into a brochure? I would suggest the standard Roget's Thesauras.

[schuh]

I was a writer at an advertising/PR agency for 10-plus years and I still free-lance. My all-time most used book of words is called The Synonym Finder. It is a thousand times more useful than Roget's.

Here's a link to it on Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446370290/sr=8-1/qid=1144981396/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-3172755-2951928?%5Fencoding=UTF8

It has more than 40 consecutive 5-star reviews on Amazon -- when do you ever see that? You will get a gold star with your boss if you get that book.