Alan Spooner Boeken

The Oxford Minireference Thesaurus is a small, reliable guide to finding the right word and using it properly. With an easy-to-read page design for quick accss to information, this A-Z reference provides 150,000 synonyms, simple cross-references to help users find related groups of synonyms and antonyms, example phrases, and special labels highlighting synonyms which are derogatory, slang, informal or old-fashioned. Ideal for word games, The Oxford Minireference Thesaurus is the perfect guide for writers at home, in business, or at school.

The Oxford Thesaurus of Current English offers excellent value-for-money, providing authoritative coverage of over 150,000 alternative and opposite words. Its bold page design makes it quick and easy to find the word you need, with informal, dialect, and literary words clearly marked. In addition, a unique Spell-it-right guide highlights problematic words and offers helpful tips on how to improve your spelling.

This revised edition of the Oxford Quick Reference Thesaurus allows you to look up a wide range of alternative words quickly and easily, with a straightforward page design that takes you directly to the word you want. Opposite words are provided for many entries, along with advice on the bestway to use words. Also included is a Spell-it-right Guide.

Using the text of the Little Oxford Thesaurus, this popular Oxford Thesaurus has now been revised with a new appendix. With 150,000 synonyms, it is bigger than competing thesauruses of its size, and provides more help in the form of example phrases and context labels than other similar products. Colour highlighting of key information in each entry greatly enhance the book's ease of use, and a new `dictionary skills' appendix helps the user get more out of the thesaurus by providing questions (and answers) which test vocabulary skills. This thesaurus is the ideal companion to the Oxford Colour Dictionary.

Written to encourage users aged 8+ to find new or alternative words quickly and easily, this thesaurus features headwords in colour, clear and accessible design with alphabet and virtual thumb tabs down every page, and panels which provide extra vocabulary, antonyms, and idiomatic phrases. Previous ed.: 2002.

This thesaurus allows the reader to look up a wide range of alternative words quickly and easily, with its straightforward page design. Opposite words are provided for many entries, along with advice on the best way to use words. Includes a word games supplement.

This is a major new primary school thesaurus for ages 8 and over. For the first time we have a companion to The Oxford Primary School Dictionasry (new 1998 edition). They both share the same headword base. This thesaurus is suitable for primary school children who are developing independentwriting skills and it is also perfect for extended group project work. Children who are familiar with The Oxford Junior Thesaurus can now progress to The Oxford Primary School Thesaurus and at secondary level continue with The Oxford School Thesaurus.Key Features A to Z arrangement to help children find the word they need quickly over 50,000 similar and related wordsWord special word list in boxes covering subjects such as animals, food, and games ideal for further word and vocabulary buildingExample phrases and show how a word is used in its correct contextUsage draw attention to any difficulties in using wordsNo cryptic abbreviations or symbols, which can be puzzling for this age group

Comprises 29,000 entries which include parts of speech, plurals, and simple definitions.