Roget's Pocket Thesaurus Author:C. O. Sylvester Mawson, Katharine Aldrich Whiting For everyone who wants to speak and write more effective and accurate English, here is a valuable tool that will enlarge your vocabulary. it will help you to find the words that express your ideas most exactly. It will show you how to use those words according to their precise shades of meaning. — - from the cover — Do You Have WORD TROUBLE... more » ?
How often do you stop short in the midst of talking or writing because you can't think of the right word? More often than you like to realize? It's embarrassing and very annoying. The idea is clear in your mind. The word with the exact shade of meaning is right on the tip of your tongue. But it stays there while you use a poor substitute, and you manage to remember it, if ever, just as you're dropping of to sleep.
ROGEI'S THESAURUS will end your word troubles. Here is a treasury of synonyms and antonyms arranged according to subject. You can start with the broadest, most general idea. You will find words and phrases to express all the shades and modifications of that idea. Once you've used a thesaurus you will, with Franklin P. Adams, "bless, set store by, celebrate, commend, acclaim, appreciate" its "merit, goodness, value, worth."« less