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The Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus
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by:
Lindberg, Christine A.
Auburn, David
Dirda, Michael
Lehman, David
Merritt, Stephin
Prose, Francine
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Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Published: October, 2004
ISBN: 0195170768
Format:Hardcover
Pages:1088
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Book Description
Product Description:
This brand new thesaurus from Oxford, the most trusted name in reference, is the first to be developed by writers, for writers. In addition to the more than 300,000 synonyms and 10,000 antonyms found in the thesaurus, each of our
distinguished editorial board members (including David Auburn, Michael Dirda, David Lehman, Stephin Merritt, Francine Prose, Zadie Smith, Jean Strouse, David Foster Wallace, and Simon Winchester) has contributed frank, funny, thoughtful, and, most of
all, word-wise mini-essays on words that they particularly love, hate, admire, or are just plain puzzled by. Even more helpful for writers in search of the perfect word, this new thesaurus contains nearly two hundred word banks, collections of nouns to
add exact detail to your writing. (Was it just bread, or was it chapatti, rye, dal, or pita?) Brand-new word spectrums show where your word falls in a line between two polar opposites (passable is three-quarters of the way from beautiful to ugly). Other
features include quick guides to easily confused words; helpful, real-world usage guidance to tricky sticking points of grammar and word choice; and careful, expert distinctions among awkward synonyms. The Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus will unlock
the power of language and is certain to be the thesaurus that says on the desk--and stays open.
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