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IF YOU HAVE EVER FELT the paralyzing and strangling helplessness of hunting for the right word when you need it the most, then you know the real value of a rich vocabulary. There is no man on earth so alone as the one who is addressing a group of associates and, at the moment of putting across an "idea" which may make the future for him, finds himself struggling hopelessly for the right word to convey that idea. He is alone then ; there is no one who can help him, no matter how much we may wish to. He is alone with a mind that is struggling valiantly to broadcast the right word conveying the right idea.

Unless the right word is immediately available, the idea may as well have died at the very moment of conception. Remember there is more truth than poetry to the old jingle "... for want of a horseshoe nail a kingdom was lost." It is equally true that for the lack of a single word one's whole future may be lost.

This volume is a truly splendid collection of related vocabularies so arranged that the user can place his finger immediately upon the category of words that he needs for use or for study. To make these collections even more readily accessible for use and study, the collections of words have been divided vertically into groups. These are the major divisions for all words of verbs, adjectives, and nouns, the inverse order to the one by which we learned our wards as children, but the correct order in which we must learn our words as adults to improve and enrich our vocabularies.

Words without Meaning (Contemporary Philosophical Monographs)
by Christopher Gauker (Author) "According to the received view of linguistic communication, the central function of language is to enable a speaker to reveal his or her thoughts to..."

Advanced English Dictionary is distinguished from the other (paper, electronic) dictionaries in many ways. Not because it contains far more words than a conventional paper dictionary, but because it uses a radically new approach and technology called WordNet. Instead of just listing the words and their definitions, Advanced English Dictionary shows how every word is linked to another. Type in the word "tree" and you will get not only the definition, synonyms and opposites, but the hypernyms (a tree is a kind of what?), meronyms (what are the parts of a tree?) and more. You can also find a list of hundreds of trees, from yellowwood to the Tree of Knowledge, and even all words that contain the letters t-r-e-e. This WordNet approach will help you to understand the meanings of words better. Linguists call WordNet project one of the biggest leaps for dictionaries since scholars sat down to write the epic Oxford English Dictionary.
 
MORE THAN 250.000 ENTRIES AND 1.6 MILLION WORDS

This is the result of an ongoing project to collect and distribute the most obscure and rare words in the English language (such as aprosexia, diurnation, galeanthropy, nidor or symmetrophobia). It also contains a few words which do not have equivalent words in English. This version of the dictionary contains 2103 words, though it is constantly growing.