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To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Those who seek the right word in a thesaurus will do well to start here. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. "In the jargon of sportscasters The Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus is a triple threat: It's a freshly conceived guide to finding just the right word, it's published by the greatest name in English reference books, and it offers thoughtful, amusing and provocative mini-essays on 240 favorite words by nine distinguished contemporary writers.--Michael Dirda, Pulitzer Prize winning critic and longtime … (I looked at the words too, of course, and they weren't far fetched.) Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. I went to the bookstore and chose five thesauruses (none of them "pocket"). It sets itself apart from competitors by offering more synonyms than the Cambridge Thesaurus of American English (1994) and by offering more context for meanings than the Oxford American Thesaurus of Current English (1999). 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