Roget's Concise International Thesaurus

An essential volume for every reference shelf, THE CONCISE ROGET'S INTERNATIONAL THESAURUS is the most comprehensive mass market paperback thesaurus available today. Containing more than 225,000 words, including slang, idiom, parts of speech, and technical terms, it remains the ultimate writing tool for organising thoughts and mastering the nuance of expression. More complete and authoritative than other thesauruses, the revised and updated seventh edition offers a revolutionary method of organisation, grouping synonyms, antonyms, and related words together into 1,075 numbered categories, eliminating the unneccessary repetition and time-consuming cross-referencing so common in other thesauruses. With an easy-to-use index for quick referencing, this thesaurus is the first source to which writers, students, and speakers should turn to add eloquence, weight, and style to their spoken and written ideas and sentiments.