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First tagged "reference" by Brenda Athens "Crafty Reader"
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Product Description
An inventive word-finder that helps we locate a accurate word we wish when we know generally what we meant though can't remember a accurate term. You demeanour adult a definition to find a word. Contains over 400,000 difference in some-more than 70,000 categorical entries.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #728425 in Books
- Published on: 1997-06-16
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 608 pages
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12 of 13 people found a following examination helpful.
By Victoria Tarrani
Like a box full of chocolates with a warn in each wrapper, this book is filled with delights.
The Reverse Dictionary is one of my favorite books, a place where we can always find a right word. Not usually are difference tangible as they are in a customary dictionary, though this compendium provides alternatives with their meanings as it relates to a comparison word:
This is an instance from a book:
deceive -- See also lie
- deceive, sanctimonious to be something or someone that is not -- masquerade, dissemble
- mistreat or agree with well-spoken desirable talk-- blarney
- simply deceived, fooled, or hoodwinked -- credulous, gullible
The subsequent entries in a Reverse Dictionary are for deception, afterwards false that give we additional routs to anticipating perfection.
In further to a terminology peculiarity of a book, there are charts, maps, and pictures. By regulating a discerning list for German terms we learn that a definition of Junker is "a former Prussian aristocrat." Also if we have wondered what a mathematical black or therapy (rolfing) terms meant a answer is in this book. One of a many engaging charts is a tree blueprint of a Indo-European Languages.
Providing mixed variations of a same word and additional terminology options creates this book an glorious choice. When joined with a many graphics and tables it is easy to see that this apparatus is for students, writers, teachers, lecturers, and everybody else.
This is such an engaging book that it is formidable to systematise it as a anxiety tool.. It is, though doubt, value 5 stars.
8 of 8 people found a following examination helpful.
By Fernando Melendez
I adore to collect adult this "reverse dictionary" and usually crop it, something that we do frequently given it sits within reach, during my desk. It is though any doubt a abounding and fanciful source of ubiquitous knowledge, of trivia and of words. If we are during a temporaty detriment about either it is a "stamen" or a "stigma" of a flower, we competence solve your difficulty with this book. we contend we "might" advisedly, since a book is annoying in a miss of association between a list of difference and those found in many of a sensuous and smashing illustrations it contains. If we demeanour adult stigma, we will find no entrance by that name; if we try "stamen" we will find usually "stamens" with a mysterious "of a flower ANDROECIUM." Of course, there is no entrance for "androecium." But if we insist and have a instinct of a dowser we will, earlier or later, come opposite a design of a flower, in full color, with all of a tools orderly labeled, including a stamen and a stigma.
This is a wily book, able of giving we fits. It rates usually 3 stars since a cache are really formidable to get to, so that it is an unreal book from that to remove specific information when we need it. we recently attempted to remember "alb," and we approached it by looking during vestment, priest, miter, even Pope, though we could find zero until (by chance) we found a design of "Papal Vestments." In these days of mechanism palliate there is no reason because a book should not enclose a list including each singular word that appears in a book and a page on that it is found. It is infamous that this one does not. But...did we tell we that we adore this book?
11 of 12 people found a following examination helpful.
By A Customer
Many times we know what we wish to express, solely we don't know how to accurately clear my meaning.. This book gives me a resources to entirely say my ideas, regulating a approprate wording and word nuances.
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