Download or read book The Cassell Thesaurus written by Elizabeth McLaren Kirkpatrick and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1998 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A completely new thesaurus, reflecting the state of the language in the 1990sThe only thesaurus to attach definitions to numbered lists of synonymsSynonyms listed in easy-to-use A-Z formatContains over 300,000 synonymsDictionary definitions included to pinpoint shades of meaning for each group of synonymsFull coverage of general, colloquial and regional English, including idiomatic expressionsGenerous labelling shows how to use synonyms correctlyAntonyms listed

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