Compact and reliable, this handy color reference, with 150,000 synonyms, has been newly redesigned, offering example phrases that clarify less obvious senses, information on related synonyms and antonyms, and a new Appendix that provides questions (and answers) to test vocabulary skills.

An easy-to-use dictionary and thesaurus in one volume containing over 140,000 synonyms and antonyms.

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.

The Color Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus provides a complete dictionary and thesaurus in one handy volume. The last edition of this book was a huge success. Now, in its new edition, it has been fully updated and contains a new 30-page center section on Effective English which covers thebasics of writing English and how to get the best out of your thesaurus. The design is extremely user-friendly. Each page is split between thesaurus and dictionary, with headwords, phrases, and key synonyms all in color, so they are easy to find. The dictionary contains over 50,000 words, phrases,and definitions, and the thesaurus provides 65,000 synonyms, ensuring all of your everyday vocabulary is covered.This Dictionary and Thesaurus fits easily into a bag or back pack and is ideal at home, on the move, and in the office.

This major new edition offers the most accurate and up-to-date coverage of essential vocabulary, providing a fresh selection of 140,000 alternative and opposite words.

For anyone who has every had to work out of a suitcase on a business trip or with a laptop computer on a plane (or simply finds herself working on the run), reference books pose a problem--a bulky and inconvenient necessity. Now Oxford comes to the rescue with the new Oxford Color Compact Thesaurus, the perfect companion to The Oxford Color Compact Dictionary. Compact, reliable, and with a new durable flexi-cover, this handy, full color reference (packed with 150,000 synonyms) has been newly redesigned, offering all the key information of a larger book into a compact reference. With its attractive color layout, the result is a remarkably complete, convenient, authoritative, and easy-to-use portable synonym finder. All the words you want are at your fingertips on one fully cross-referenced A-Z sequence. Example phrases clarify less obvious senses, and there is information on related synonyms and antonyms. Ideal for writing letters, reports, and essays, for crosswords, and simply to increase your word power, this is the most comprehensive color thesaurus of its size. No matter where you find yourself in search of a word--on the train, in a hotel, or even in your own office, The Oxford Compact Color Thesaurus will always be at hand, providing instant access to an immense vocabulary.

This handy guide offers three books in one portable format, giving authoritative and current coverage of today's English.