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The Dictionary of Colors and Colored Words is the world's only true and comprehensive collection of lexically verifiable colors and colored words!
With this dictionary, individuals near and far now have anytime access to a credible, trusted, and reliable lexical partner to help in absorbing, engaging, exploring, discovering, learning, referencing, maneuvering, and operating within and around the world of color, colors, and colored words.
This colorific repository, which has well over 500 individual/specific colors spread over 280 pages strong, is organized and presented in abecedarian format and includes three special bonus sections: nouns only, adjectives only, and verbs only. Some of the entries, which span almost every area, discipline, or field, also include parenthesized boldface guidance as to where they are primarily used, as in art, painting, zoology, biology, botany, chemistry, medicine, dentistry, cartography, crystallography, gemology, mineralogy, psychology, ophthalmology, dermatology, anthropology, entomology, ornithology, computing, digital imaging, graphic arts, astronomy, mathematics, physics, meteorology, photography, printing, publishing, broadcasting, electronics and optics.
Additionally, all colors and certain colored words are assigned a six-digit alphanumeric hexadecimal code that allows for precise color matching, classification, confirmation, or reproduction on any digital platform or elsewhere.
About the author
Peter Isaacs is a former first team all-American soccer player, a former finalist for the Hermann Award (American collegiate soccer's equivalent to the Heisman Award), a former professional soccer player and a graduate of Howard University in Washington D.C.Born and raised in Jamaica, Peter went to Wolmer's preparatory and high schools in Kingston where his lifetime love affair with words and the English language began before leaving at the tender age of seventeen to attend Howard University on a full scholarship.A quintessential and agelong logophile, he is a voracious reader and researcher who over the last sixteen years has diligently compiled The Logophile's Collection, a comprehensively organized and thematic repository of words that cover almost every area, field, or sphere of life.An athlete turned lexicographer, Peter has published the Dictionary of Colors and Colored Words in addition to The Color Bible.He is the father of three girls, Hadiya, Alexandria, and Amelia.
