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For grades 9-11, Ages 14 & up. Build vocabulary and discover the rich variety of the English language with the new edition of this high school thesaurus. Features more than 154,000 word choices. Includes synonyms, antonyms, related and contrasted woreds, and idiomatic phases. Concise definitions and 37,000 usage examples aid word selection. A perfect compaion to Merriam-Webster's School Dictionary.

Created especially for crossword puzzle lovers. Features more than 340,000 clues and answer words with over 20,000 new words. Organized alphabetically, by number of letters, and by common categories. New answer and clue words include freegan, goji, pho, and tweep. Comprehensive coverage of "crosswordese"--the words, people, and place-names most encountered by puzzlers.

A convenient guide to today's medical language for everyone from patients to medical professionals who need to communicate in both English and Spanish. This bidirectional dictionary (Spanish to English and English to Spanish) includes more than 12,000 medical terms and phrases with clear, concise definitions. Entries include part-of-speech, Spanish noun gender, and abbreviations. Includes anatomical illustrations and tables with topics such as immunizations, allergens, and types of surgeries--in English and Spanish. Special sections include Spanish and English sounds and spelling; weights and measures; numbers, time, and temperature; and irregular Spanish verbs. Appendices include: phrases used when communicating between patient and doctor; phrases related to health insurance; symptoms of diseases and diagnostic tests; phrases used in medical emergencies; phrases used in specialties such as: eyes and ears, cardiopulmonary, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, neurological, skin, the newborn, and urinary; special vocabulary for common diseases such as heart attack, diabetes, and cancer; types of medications; vocabulary for body positions and movements. Perfect for use at home, work, school, in the community, and in health-care settings.

This newly revised visual dictionary contains nearly 25,000 terms with dictionary-scale definitions; more than 8,000 highly detailed, full-color illustrations, organized by subject in specialized fields from all aspects of life; and nearly 25,000 up-to-date technical and everyday terms with clear, concise definitions edited by Merriam-Webster lexicographers.

New edition! Specially designed to meet the standards of the National Association for the Visually Handicapped (NAVH). 40,000 entries. Clear definitions, spellings, and pronunciations. Includes a punctuation guide.

For grades 4-8, ages 10-14; This durable, bidirectional dictionary (English to Spanish and Spanish to English) is a resource especially for students learning Spanish or English. More than 50,000 translations include variants, inflected forms, common phrases, synonyms, and definitions. An appendix with detailed pronunciation guides to the English words, includes IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) and helps English learners speak the language. Special sections include the conjugation of regular and irregular Spanish verbs. 1,000 detailed drawings illustrate more than 10,000 additional terms and phrases that identify parts of the object in both English and Spanish. Perfect for use at school and home, and for students learning a second language.