Intended to be THE 265 "charged" words of its day; the last word in the "go to" vocabulary, as it were, turned out to be a fleeting exercise in arrogance. The book's strong point was that it gave very clear and detailed explanations of these 265 words. Its weak point was that the words chosen, were "one man's selection," arguably, hardly a true representative of what the market of communication at the time called for.Dr. de Bono's collection did not endure. A better approach would of course have been to produce an annual update to the list, or even a dictionary of such "charged" words.The worse of the de Bono lot. Two stars.