The Facts on File Student's Thesaurus - Hardcover

High school and college students sometimes find out the hard way that a good thesaurus can help them avoid those pesky words that English teachers hate--words such as very, good, nice, and really. But usually elementary and junior high students find that a traditional thesaurus is too complex for them and often reject thesauruses as difficult to use. Facts on File, a respected publisher of reference materials, spotted this need and came to the rescue! This thesaurus was developed for the late elementary and junior-high set, designed with the younger reader in mind. This volume presents 5,000 of the most commonly used words in English, and each entry gives the part of speech, five or six synonyms, a few antonyms, and a sample sentence for the entry term, written clearly in words a young reader will understand. The type size is larger than that of a standard thesaurus or dictionary, with enough surrounding white space to make the pages both easy to read and easy to use. This is a very good book that would make a nice gift for any student--really. Or, if you use this thesaurus: This is an enormously useful publication that would make an agreeable offering for any scholar. (Ages 9 to 14)