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Increasing word power sounds like one of those dreary chores best palmed off on somebody else, but The Yo Momma Vocabulary Builder makes the activity not only endurable but irresistible. A typical entry, for “emaciated,” first presents the word as a joke (“Yo momma's so emaciated, she can hula hoop in a Cheerio.”). The pronunciation is then given, along with a detailed, humor-inflected definition (“too skinny . . . skeletal”) that invokes pop culture phenomena like supermodels, the Olsen twins, and Gollum from Lord of the Rings. By using classic dissing and one-upmanship to slyly introduce readers to a wide range of words, this offbeat choice for SAT prep and all-around fun will turn readers everywhere into paragons of vociferous invective.
