The American Heritage® College Dictionary, Fourth Edition
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ISBN: 0618098488 / Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, April 2002
Includes definitions, explanatory photographs and illustrations, guidelines for using the dictionary, and other features.
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Since the last edition nine years ago, 7,500 words have been added, including 9/11 , alphabetized according to the spelling of the first number. A touted feature is the occasional highlighted usage note (300 in all); for example, under critique , we find that the word is considered (by 41% of the usage panel of 200 scholars and writers) as "pretentious jargon." Typical line-drawing illustrations have been replaced, primarily by photos, and a pronunciation key appears on every other page. A 33-page revised appendix on Indo-European and Indo-European roots is of particular interest. The dictionary is thumb-indexed, and every page provides headers with the first and last words on the page. A weakness is the lack of the approximate or exact year the defined word entered the language. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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