With more than 4,000 entries and 36,000 synonyms, this updated edition of an award-winning thesaurus encourages young writers to think analytically about word choice. Every meaning of each entry word is illustrated by an example sentence showing typical usage. Includes helpful feature notes and more than 150 full-color photographs.
This updated thesaurus offers middle-school and high-school students more ways to build writing skills. With 6,000 main entries and more than 70,000 synonyms, this thesaurus is an ideal resource for young writers at the middle school and high school levels.
Amusing and enthralling, this is a treasure trove of weird and wonderful words for everyone who loves The Dictionary of Cliches. The words sound unlikely but are absolutely real--from clowder and crwth to geep and greedigut.
This work covers such subjects as insomnia, phobias, manias, governments and animals. It includes two-letter and vowelless words, archaic words and words on sex and marriage. The final chapters look at wordplay, including chronograms, lipograms, pangrams and palindromes.
This thesaurus contains over 5000 entries and is laid out in the format of a traditional thesaurus. It offers a smaller but more precise range of synonyms and antonyms than the adult version.
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