Best Synonym & Antonym Reference Books
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1. Scholastic Pocket Dictionary of Synonyms, Antonyms, Homonyms
Author: by Scholastic
English
240 pages
0545426677
The popular portable dictionary has brand-new cover and two-color interior design! The Scholastic Dictionary of Synonyms, Antonyms, and Homonyms-a widely successful reference title-is getting a makeover! This book is a portable, inexpensive dictionary perfect for middle school students. It can be slipped into their book bags and taken anywhere.
With more than 12,000 synonyms and 10,000 antonyms at their fingertips, this book is a great reference for young writers. And for kids who don’t know whether to use “principle” or “principal,” this handy guide also contains 2,000 homonyms.
2. Flip Dictionary
Author: by Barbara Ann Kipfer
Writer's Digest Books
English
704 pages
You know what you want to say, but you can’t think of the word. You can describe what you’re thinking but you don’t know the name for it. Flip Dictionary comes to the rescue! Best-selling author Barbara Ann Kipfer has created a huge reference that offers cues and clue words to lead writers to the exact phrase or specific term they need.
It goes beyond the standard reverse dictionary format to offer dozens of charts and tables, listing groups by subject (such as automobiles, clothing types, plants, tools, etc. For example: want to know the term for the curved wooden beams that form the ribs of a ship?
Look in the alphabetical listing to find “ship, curved timbers forming rib of: futtock.” Then look at the table of sailing terms to find the names of other parts of a ship, as well as types of ships. Flip Dictionary is an excellent reference for everyone.
Writers of fiction and non-fiction will use it to find that elusive word they need, and word lovers will find it an entertaining book to simply sit and browse through. Crossword puzzlers will also find it invaluable. An indispensable desk reference, as necessary as a dictionary or thesaurus, but a whole lot more fun.
3. McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Author: by Richard A. Spears
B00UYAJ08O
McGraw-Hill Education
September 22, 2003
McGraw-Hill’s Dictionary of American Idioms is the most comprehensive reference of its kind, bar none. It puts the competition to shame, by giving both ESL learners and professional writers the complete low-down on more than 24,000 entries and almost 27,000 senses. Entries include idiomatic expressions (e.G.
The best of both worlds), proverbs (the best things in life are free), and clich s (the best-case scenario). Particular attention is paid to verbal expressions, an area where ordinary dictionaries are deficient. The dictionary also includes a handy Phrase-Finder Index that lets users find a phrase by looking up any major word appearing in it.
4. Dictionary of Idioms and Their Origins
Author: by Linda Flavell
Kyle Books
English
216 pages
The English language contains a vast store of idioms that can be used in creative and forceful ways. This totally revised and greatly expanded edition of Dictionary of Idioms examines over 500 such phrases, tracing each one’s source and history through a rich supply of examples.
New entries include ‘playing fast and loose’ (from a 16th-century fairground game), ‘head over heels’ (a totally illogical variation on the more sensible ‘heels over head’) and ‘knee-high to a grasshopper’ (which won out over knee-high to a mosquito and knee-high to a toad).
Mini-essays scattered through the book enable the authors to expand on such broader themes as: What is an Idiom?, National Rivalries, and the Old Curiosity Shop of Linguistics. While maintaining scholarly accuracy, Linda and Roger Flavell convey their great love of the curious in language in a way that will be irresistible to anyone who delights in words.
5. Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right
Author: by Bill Bryson
B000FA64VE
Crown
September 17, 2002
One of the English language’s most skilled and beloved writers guides us all toward precise, mistake-free grammar. As usual Bill Bryson says it best: English is a dazzlingly idiosyncratic tongue, full of quirks and irregularities that often seem willfully at odds with logic and common sense.
This is a language where cleave’ can mean to cut in half or to hold two halves together; where the simple word set’ has 126 different meanings as a verb, 58 as a noun, and 10 as a participial adjective; where if you can run fast you are moving swiftly, but if you are stuck fast you are not moving at all; [and] where colonel,’ freight,’ once,’ and ache’ are strikingly at odds with their spellings.
As a copy editor for the London Times in the early 1980s, Bill Bryson felt keenly the lack of an easy-to-consult, authoritative guide to avoiding the traps and snares in English, and so he brashly suggested to a publisher that he should write one.
Surprisingly, the proposition was accepted, and for a sum of money carefully gauged not to cause embarrassment or feelings of overworth, he proceeded to write that bookhis first, inaugurating his stellar career. Now, a decade and a half later, revised, updated, and thoroughly (but not overly) Americanized, it has become Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words, more than ever an essential guide to the wonderfully disordered thing that is the English language.
6. The Synonym Finder
Author: by Laurence Urdang
Rodale Books
English
1368 pages
Originally published in 1961 by the founder of Rodale Press, The Synonym Finder continues to be a practical reference tool for every home and office. This thesaurus contains more than 1 million synonyms, arranged alphabetically, with separate subdivisions for the different parts of speech and meanings of the same word.
7. The Highly Selective Dictionary of Golden Adjectives: For the Extraordinarily Literate
Author: by Eugene Ehrlich
Harper
English
272 pages
Adjectives have long suffered from bad press. For many years, English teachers have been fond of telling students that “adjectives are the enemy of nouns, and adverbs are the enemy of everything else.”While it’s still advisable to heed your English teacher’s advice on most other matters, The Highly Selective Dictionary of Golden Adjectives for the Extraordinarily Literate proves that breaking certain rules can make written and spoken language that much livelier, adding much-needed color, style, and adornment.
With this addition to the popular Highly Selective series, the “golden” adjective, at last, gets the star treatment it deserves. From adventitious to zaftig, renowned lexicographer Eugene Ehrlich has collected more than 850 of the most interesting and engaging adjectives in the English language and has provided concise definitions and instructive usage examples.
Whether you’re a writer, a speaker, or a word buff, this compendious, trenchant, laudable, and all-around fantabulous volume will help you put panache back into your prose.
8. The New American Webster Handy College Dictionary: Fourth Edition
Author: by Philip D. Morehead
0451219058
Berkley
English
The Essential Dictionary for Every School, College, Office, and HomeWith More Than 16 Million Copies In Print! Inside The New American Webster Handy College Dictionary you’ll find more features than any other pocket dictionary, including: Boxed inserts on etymologies and language usage Pronunciation key on each page Current phrases, slang, and scientific terms Special notes on word origins World gazetteerPLUS Tables of weights and measurements Languages and language families Tables of signs and symbols Forms of address Comprehensive listing of abbreviations…AND MORE!
With highly readable type, clear, precise definitions, and easy-to-follow advice on correct usage and grammar, this handy dictionary is the world’s most authoritative tool for mastering the English language.
9. ABC Letter Tracing Practice Workbook for Kids: Learning To Write Alphabet, Numbers and Line Tracing. Handwriting Activity Book For Preschoolers, Kindergartens.
Author: by Coloring Book Kim
B095GRWQL8
English
155 pages
For more information about this book, visit our author profile on Amazon or our website www.Coloringbookkim. Com A handwriting practice book for kids. Simple, progressive writing instruction from easy, simple tasks, tracing lines to writing letters and numbers on their own.
Prepare children for success in school with easy line tracing exercises. This handwriting exercise book includes:More than 150 pages of exercises: many engaging line-tracing tasks provide enough repetition, enough variety, to keep kids interested. Fun pictures that can be colored in.
Step 1: Line Tracing : Start-Stop The adventure of writing begins with easy line drawing. Simple line tracing exercises from short strokes to increasingly longer strokes. Such exercises improve children’s concentration and motor coordination. Step 2: Writing the alphabet from A to Z Trace lines on uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
The letters have marked places to start writing, and arrows indicate the direction of movement. For easy association, each letter includes a picture. Step 3: Numbers 0 to 10 Trace lines on numbers 0 to 10. Numbers have markings where writing begins and arrows indicate direction of movement.
10. The New Comprehensive American Rhyming Dictionary
Author: by Sue Young
William Morrow & Co
English
622 pages
Lists thousands of English words and phrases that share common sounds
