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Contains more than one million alphabetically-arranged synonyms grouped in related clusters.

Since its first publication in 1958, The New American Roget's College Thesaurus has reached more than fifteen million copies in print. Now, as The Penguin Roget's College Thesaurus in Dictionary Form, it has been totally revised, reset, and modernized in both form and content -- for the first time ever. Its more than 1,500 new entries will keep users thoroughly up to date with today's expanding language, current colloquialisms, and slang expressions....

"Based on C.O. Sylvester Mawson's alphabetical arrangement of the famous Roget system of word classification.

"Written by writers for writers, this innovative thesaurus truly advances the time-honored word source. Some 25,000 word meanings and connotations are elucidated by means of more than 300,000 synonyms, 10,000 antonyms, 250 word notes written by noted authors, and generous listings of example sentences. Many special features, such as usage notes, word spectrums, and a language guide, further clarify a word's many nuances and assist the user in finding...

This brand-new thesaurus was created to make the task of finding the right word easier than ever. Each entry states the 'core meaning' that all of the listed synonyms share.

Rhyming text and playful illustrations of animals introduce fourteen pairs of opposites, such as wet and dry and day and night.

Contains one hundred of the most misused and confusing words in the English language such as "its" and "it's" and provides instructions on their proper usage.

This book, revised and updated for the new century, includes an authoritative dictionary and a thesaurus which, together, have over 410,000 definitions, synonyms, antonyms, and related and contrasted words; a detailed 48-page full-color world atlas; and much more.