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Random House Roget's College Thesaurus : Revised Edition
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by:
Stein, Jess M.
Flexner, Stuart Berg
Pearsons, Enid
Braham, Carol G.
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Publisher:
Random House Reference
Published: August 15, 2000
ISBN: 0375425594
Format:Hardcover
Pages:832
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Book Description
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Two of the most overused words in the English language: appropriate and interesting. As in "I don't think that's appropriate, do you?" and "Wow, that's really interesting." How about relevant, well-chosen, proper, or befitting in the first
case; amazing, riveting, curious, or striking in the second? It's easier to go with the first word that comes to mind, but if you want your memos, letters, e-mails, and papers to really pack a punch, you need a reliable thesaurus.
Random House
Roget's College Thesaurus boasts 12,000 boldfaced entries with 400,000 synonyms and antonyms all organized in a straight A-to-Z list. Each word features an example sentence for the word's various meanings. For example, "dawn" meaning early morning has
Did you hear the cock crow at dawn? while "dawn" as in "occur" has It dawned on me that I'd left the oven on. Antonyms are listed, too. The thesaurus also attempts to cover all levels of vocabulary, from formal English to slang. At the beginning, a
section titled "Avoiding Insensitive and Offensive Language" offers modern terms for outdated words (mail carrier instead of mailman). Though rather condescending, this section could be a great help to those whose PC radar is on the blink.
With
its alphabetical organization, Random House Roget's College Thesaurus is a good tool for high school and college students, or for anyone who needs a better word now and then. This is not only a suitable addition to your home or office library, it's also
absorbing to browse. --Dana Van Nest
Product Description:
Revised and containing hundreds of new words, Random House Roget's College Thesaurus is the easiest to use and most up-to-date word-finder available.
Features
include:
*Over 12,000 main entries in a single A-Z listing for easy use.
*Over 400,000 synonyms and antonyms cover all levels of vocabulary, from formal to slang, and include hundreds of new words: win-win, agita, no-brainer, wannabe, and
much more!
*Thousands of example sentences show an appropriate context for each meaning of a main entry term.
*A comprehensive and authoritative vocabulary reference for school, home, and office use, in a durable, thumb-indexed hardcover.
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