Free The American Heritage Essential Student Thesaurus (American Heritage Dictionary) Ebooks Online
This portable paperback thesaurus is designed for students in middle and upper grades as well as adults learning English as a second language. Includes detailed synonym paragraphs, with more than 1,000 synonyms in all.
Series: American Heritage Dictionary
Paperback: 96 pages
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 2 edition (July 10, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0618280170
ISBN-13: 978-0618280179
Product Dimensions: 7 x 0.2 x 10 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Age Range: 12 and up
Grade Level: 7 and up
This is a fantastic resource. I was surprised to open the pages and see how it is laid out. It takes a few hundred of the most common words - bad, beautiful, begin, tall, taste & teach, for example - and gives you other words you can use in place of these to make your writing more interesting and specific. Of course, that is the purpose of a thesaurus, right? But most resources like this cram all the words together in difficult to read entries, and many have little to no explanation of the meaning of the words or the differences in meaning between the various synonyms suggested. These small shades of meaning are essential for ESL students and other learnings to choose the right word. This book does a good job explaining the differences. In its descriptions, it uses words that the reader will actually understand, without over-simplifying it. Every entry has example sentences for a variety of the suggested words. This is an "essential" guide, so you won't find every word in the English language there, but you'll find most of the ones you need, and tons of new words to make your vocabulary more interesting and clear. In fact, I would recommend that a student choose a half dozen a week and practice the synonyms just to build vocabulary.
A match made in heaven?For college or high school, adding this to your American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition, and using them diligently will improve your reading comprehension and writing performance immediately.Start aiming for your best reading comprehension and excellence in writing.These are well printed; easy to use, and necessary for you to be in the competitive top percent of your class.
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