Description: Full of practical advice on how to effectively manage dictionaries, thesauri, and other language reference books, this easy-to-use guide helps readers significantly improve their wordpower. 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 of language and vocabulary, as well as to finesse their use of the English language.

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