Under alphabetically arranged entries are more than a thousand words with illustrative sentences to help the middle grader in choosing the exact word from several synonyms.
Contains over 12,000 main entries offering 400,000 synonym and antonym word choices in an alphabetical format and with thousands of example sentences to demonstrate appropriate meaning and usage.
This thesaurus contains three features: nearly all of the synonyms, while completely legitimate, are harder or more sophisticated words than one would find in a regular thesaurus; the entries have actual examples from current books or periodicals; and 75 percent of the entries contain a clarifier.