The Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus |
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| Compiled by:
| Lindberg, Christine |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-517076-4 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2004 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $40.00 |
Book Description:
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Featuring more than 300,000 synonyms and 10,000 antonyms, this unique thesaurus boasts a distinguished editorial board (including Michael Dirda, David Lehman, Francine Prose, Zadie Smith, Jean Strouse, David Foster Wallace, and Simon Winchester), who offer frank, funny, and thoughtful mini-essays on words that they particularly love, hate, or are just puzzled by. In addition, the thesaurus contains nearly two hundred word banks, collections of nouns to add exact detail to your writing....
More DescriptionFeaturing more than 300,000 synonyms and 10,000 antonyms, this unique thesaurus boasts a distinguished editorial board (including Michael Dirda, David Lehman, Francine Prose, Zadie Smith, Jean Strouse, David Foster Wallace, and Simon Winchester), who offer frank, funny, and thoughtful mini-essays on words that they particularly love, hate, or are just puzzled by. In addition, the thesaurus contains nearly two hundred word banks, collections of nouns to add exact detail to your writing. Brand-new word spectrums show where your word falls in a line between two polar opposites. 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.