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Random House word menu, by Stephen Glazier

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Random House word menu

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by Stephen Glazier

The ultimate word and idea resource for anyone who is curious about language or wants to write creatively. Like a fantastic restaurant menu with hundreds of vocabulary categories and thousands of tempting choices. More than a dictionary, the Random House Word Menu arranges words in a logical structure - with nearly 800 divisions and 75,000 entries. More than a thesaurus, it also provides definitions - describing words clearly and concisely. And it's fully indexed to helpYou find the words you need. Seven major sections - Nature, Science and Technology, Domestic Life, Institutions, Arts and Leisure, Language, and The Human Condition - cover an encyclopedic range of subjects. This organizational focus enables the reader to distinguish and compare similar or related words in ways that are impossible in most alphabetical reference works. Take a quick course in the terminology of an unfamiliar field. Discover different ways of saying theSame thing. Correctly employ technical terms and jargon. Match a known meaning to an unknown word. The Random House Word Menu is an invaluable source of information for browsers, students and teachers, writers and editors, translators, secretaries, and all business people and professionals

The human body -- Living things -- The earth -- The sciences -- Technology -- Transportation -- The home -- The family -- Eating -- Clothing -- Social order -- The economy -- Social sciences -- Fine arts and literature -- Performing arts -- Applied arts -- Leisure and recreation -- Structure and usage -- Action and sense words -- Common expressions -- Foreign expressions -- Character -- Cognition -- The dark side -- Faith