The Wordsworth Thesaurus

The Wordsworth Thesaurus
Author:
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Total Pages: 400
Release: 1993
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9781853263026

Arranged in alphabetical form, the entries in this thesaurus are suited to home, office and student use and are designed to provide the word being sought quickly. It contains over 150,000 entries with cross-referencing and both British and American English.

Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Author: Martin H. Manser
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Total Pages: 868
Release: 1998
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781853267635

This work of fiction is a tale of pirates and villains, maps, treasure and shipwreck. When young Jim Hawkins finds a package in Captain Flint's sea chest, he could not know that the map inside it would lead him to unimaginable treasure. Mutiny and mayhem ensue.

A Thesaurus of English Word Roots

A Thesaurus of English Word Roots
Author: Horace Gerald Danner
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 1007
Release: 2014-03-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1442233265

Horace G. Danner’s A Thesaurus of English Word Roots is a compendium of the most-used word roots of the English language. As Timothy B. Noone notes in his foreword: “Dr. Danner’s book allows you not only to build up your passive English vocabulary, resulting in word recognition knowledge, but also gives you the rudiments for developing your active English vocabulary, making it possible to infer the meaning of words with which you are not yet acquainted. Your knowledge can now expand and will do so exponentially as your awareness of the roots in English words and your corresponding ability to decode unfamiliar words grows apace. This is the beginning of a fine mental linguistic library: so enjoy!” In A Thesaurus of English Word Roots, all word roots are listed alphabetically, along with the Greek or Latin words from which they derive, together with the roots’ original meanings. If the current meaning of an individual root differs from the original meaning, that is listed in a separate column. In the examples column, the words which contain the root are then listed, starting with their prefixes, for example, dysacousia, hyperacousia. These root-starting terms then are followed by terms where the root falls behind the word, e.g., acouesthesia and acoumeter. These words are followed by words where the root falls in the middle or the end, as in such terms as bradyacusia and odynacusis.. In this manner, A Thesaurus of English Word Roots places the word in as many word families as there are elements in the word. This work will interest linguists and philologists and anyone interested in the etymological aspects of English language.

The Thesaurus of Slang

The Thesaurus of Slang
Author: Esther Lewin
Publisher: Checkmark Books
Total Pages: 456
Release: 1997
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780816036615

Includes jargon, sports slang, and ethnic and regional expressions

The Wordsworth Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms

The Wordsworth Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
Author: Martin H. Manser
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1998
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9781853267574

This dictionary aims to help users to find the most appropriate word to use on a wide range of occasions. It is designed in particular for students, those writing reports, letters and speeches, and crossword solvers, but is also useful as a general word reference. Special features include: an alphabetical A-Z listing; numbered senses for words with more than one meaning; British and American variants; and specially marked colloquial uses.

Roget's Thesaurus of Words for Students

Roget's Thesaurus of Words for Students
Author: David Olsen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2014-03-18
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1440573093

The ultimate tool for students! Tired of using the same few phrases in all your presentations? Can't find the right expression to begin your college admissions essay? Stuck with a drab, uninspiring conclusion at the end of your research paper? Roget's Thesaurus of Words for Students will help you find the perfect words and phrases for any writing assignment. Unlike other titles that simply list related terms for each entry, this volume offers a pronunciation guide, definition, and a sample sentence for every word you look up, as well as for each of the synonyms under that entry. It also features hundreds of useful terms every student should know, making it the most essential tool on your desk when you're working on an essay or presentation. With Roget's Thesaurus of Words for Students at your side, you'll impress your teachers and advance straight to the head of the class!

Colouring Meaning

Colouring Meaning
Author: Gill Philip
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2011-02-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027287236

Primarily focused on idioms and other figurative phraseology, Colouring Meaning describes how the meanings of established phrases are enhanced, refocused and modified in everyday language use. Unlike many studies of creativity in language, this book-length survey addresses the matter at several levels, from the purely linguistic level of collocation, through its abstractions in colligation and semantic preference, to semantic prosody and connotation. This journey through both linguistic and cognitive levels involves the examination of habitual language and its exploitations, both mundane and colourful, explaining the phenomena observed in terms of current psycholinguistic research as well as corpus linguistics theory and analysis. The relationships between meaning in text and meaning in the mind are discussed at length and extensively illustrated with worked case studies to offer the reader a comprehensive overview of metaphorical and other secondary meanings as they emerge in real-world communicative situations.