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9780192801081

Better Wordpower

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    9780192801081

  • ISBN10:

    0192801082

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-02-08
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

This easy-to-use guide helps readers improve their wordpower and is full of practical advice on how to effectively manage dictionaries, thesauri, and other language reference books. Useful tips for tackling spelling and the meaning of difficult words are included, along with a comprehensive reference section that highlights easily confused words, foreign terms, and word formation. Topic-based noun lists, covering architecture, the human body, countries, music, mathematics, and language help expand vocabulary, and a lexicon of "hard" words provides needed assistance with the most problematic terms. Overall, this book allows readers to develop a better understanding as well as to finesse their use of the English language.

Author Biography


Janet Whitcut is an experienced compiler of dictionaries and writer on language.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(5)
The Basic Toolkit
5(12)
Dictionary or Encyclopedia?
7(1)
Finding a Word
8(4)
Ordering of Words
8(1)
Parts of Speech
9(1)
Ordering of Senses
10(2)
When the Word is Found
12(5)
Pronunciation and Stress
12(2)
Levels of Formality
14(1)
The Thesaurus
15(2)
Reference Section
17(64)
Spelling
19(6)
Sound and Spelling
19(1)
British and American Spellings
19(1)
Difficult Spellings
20(5)
Confusables
25(6)
Foreign Phrases
31(16)
Antonyms
47(10)
Word Elements
57(24)
The Topics
81(160)
Animals, Birds, Sea Life
83(4)
Architectural Terms
87(10)
Art Techniques and Styles
97(6)
Astronomy Terms
103(5)
Botanical Terms
108(7)
Computers and Information Theory
115(7)
Currencies
122(3)
Diseases and Physical Disorders
125(13)
Financial Terms
138(7)
Geological Terms
145(6)
Heraldry
151(4)
Language
155(14)
Legal Terms
169(5)
Mathematical Terms
174(13)
Music
187(18)
Musical Directions
187(5)
Musical Forms
192(4)
Musical Terms
196(4)
Singing Voices
200(1)
Musical Instruments
200(5)
Physics and Chemistry Terms
205(16)
Psychology and Psychiatry Terms
221(6)
Ships and Nautical Terms
227(10)
Ships and Boats
227(6)
Nautical Terms
233(4)
Winds and Weather
237(4)
The Lexicon
241

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