Contents
Cover
Title Page
Using this thesaurus
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Dd
Ee
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Gg
Hh
Ii
Jj
Kk
Ll
Mm
Nn
Oo
Pp
Rr
Ss
Tt
Uu
Vv
Ww
Xx
Yy
Zz
Word list pages
Amphibians
Animals
Birds
Body
Books
Buildings
Cars
Clean
Cold
Colours
Cooking
Crimes
Criminals
Dance
Drinks
Flowers
Fruit
Groups
Insects
Jobs
Magic
Mammals
Music
Pictures
Poetry
Reptiles
Shapes
Sounds
Space
Sports
Stories
Time
Trees
Vegetables
Water
Weather
Young animals
Index
Picture Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher
Using this thesaurus
A thesaurus helps you choose exactly the right word to make your writing more interesting. In your writing, do you find you use words like good, bad and nice too often? A thesaurus will help you find other words with the same meaning.
How to find a word
If you want to find a different way of saying a word, think of its first letter. Once you know this, there is more than one way to find your word in the thesaurus:
You can use the Index at the back of the ebook which lists all of the thesaurus words in alphabetical order. Scroll through the Index until you find the letter your word begins with, then look down the words until you find the one you are looking for. You can then follow the link to the entry in the thesaurus.
You can use the Contents page at the front of the book, which has a link to every letter in the thesaurus. Follow the link to the letter your word begins with, then look through the entries in this letter until you find the word you are looking for. The entries are in alphabetical order.
Once you have found your word in the thesaurus, you can choose the synonym that suits your writing. A synonym is a word or phrase that has a similar meaning to the headword. Read the example sentences to understand how each synonym can be used.
Choosing the right synonym
1. The headword is the word that you want to find a synonym for.
2. Some headwords also have a number in brackets. This tells you that this headword can have different meanings.
3. Next you will see the part of speech. This tells you what type of word the headword is, such as a noun, verb, adjective, adverb or pronoun. If the word you want to find is a verb, make sure the headword you look at is also a verb.