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"A revised and updated edition of the best-selling dictionary covering core vocabulary with over a hundred new entries and senses. More than 75,000 definitions and 8,000 usage examples aid understanding--and cover the words you need today. Includes pronunciations, word origins, and synonym lists. Features useful tables and special sections on Foreign Words & Phrases and Geographical Names. New words include: athleisure, coronavirus, escape room, First...
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"Over the years knitting has produced its own language of technical terms, abbreviations, and familiar words used in very particular ways. Atherley helps you learn to read instructions, and expand your knitting knowledge. In addition to the A-to-Z definitions, she addresses questions about gauge, tools, sweater construction, and much more that will help you become a better knitter."--
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"Learn French more quickly with pictures! You're more likely to remember something when you see it. So this Visual Dictionary helps you speed up your language learning by including a full-color photo with every term, letting you build your French vocabulary faster. Whether you want to get ahead in a class or dream of chatting with the locals on that long-planned trip to Paris, this book is what you need! Organized around themes such as simple conversation,...
14) Illustrated dictionary of mythology: heroes, heroines, gods, and goddesses from around the world
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Organized by geographic region and with characters from the same stories and episodes grouped together, this comprehensive book is an excellent reference tool. Legendary heroes appear with their adversaries to set each myth in context, as do gods and goddesses of the underworld and mythical beasts.
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"Based on the bestselling title, The Complete Illustrated Children's Bible (over 140,000 sold), comes this amazing dictionary that will help your child, age 9-12, gain a greater understanding of the new and often times confusing words they encounter while reading the Bible. Packed with hundreds of easy-to-understand definitions and helpful illustrations, your child will learn more about the words in the Bible and be able to better conceptualize key...
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An unparalleled multilingual reference for our increasingly multillingual world. More than 15 million American households have a primary language that is not English. The major ones are the Indo-European languages, which include Spanish, German, Italian, French and English. The dictionary covers all five of these languages. Its scope and depth are immense. The terminology is well researched. With more than 1000 pages and 5000 entries, you simply will...
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