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The Random House Encyclopedia

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Random House Webster's Student Notebook Dictionary, Third Edition - Girl

The essential resource for writers, poets and songwriters. Part of the popular pocket dictionary series from Random House Webster, Random House Webster's Pocket Rhyming Dictionary includes: many new words and foreign phrases more than 30,000 words arranged by rhyme new comprehensive cross-referencing that makes it easier to use than ever a revised glossary of poetic terms contemporary proper names: Oprah, Hussein, and Club Med

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Presents an alphabetically-arranged list of more than 12,000 terms with more than 400,000 synonyms and antonyms, along with examples of their use in sentences.

Random House Roget's College Thesaurus

Provides entries for over 315,000 words and phrases, and includes a list of new words.

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Jonathan E. Lighter

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A collection of American slang which includes both present-day and historical terms

Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang: A-G

Featuring more than 207,000 definitions, this updated reference includes hundreds of new words and meanings, revised treatment of sensitive and offensive language, six hundred illustrations, helpful usage notes, and etymologies, along with ready-reference tables, spelling and punctuation rules, pronunciation notes, and sample sentences. 25,000 first printing.

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