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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…

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My Mother did not graduate high school. She lived on a farm in Poughkeepsie, the third oldest of nine children, and went to work. She was a smart woman who grew up to be a court reporter. I remember nighttime, when the house was quiet and dark, she would be at the kitchen table reading the dictionary with a flashlight. Self-taught, she loved words and passed that on to me. “Janie,” she’d say when I asked the definition of a word, “Look it up!” She’s been dead for years, but her memory lives on every time I grab the dictionary.

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