Reader's Digest Illustrated Reverse Dictionary

How to find the words on the tip of your tongue

Plot

The use of the 'Reverse Dictionary' is that you can reach to the exact word which you want to use for a particular sense. Very similar meanings are also different in their usage. So this book will give you the knowledge about the precise usage of a word. You can start with searching some similar meaning and this dictionary will lead you to the exact meaning that you wanted. This is basically the use of the 'Reverse Dictionary'. Pros- 1. There is a huge collection of meanings in it. So you will not find any lack of meanings while searching for the exact meaning. 2. After the reverse dictionary, a lexicon of difficult words has also been provided. If you have any doubt regarding the meaning of the words provided in the reverse dictionary, you can search those meanings in this lexicon. Hence you will not have to search for those meanings in any other dictionary. 3. The diagrams are also used wherever required. It makes the dictionary more attractive. 4. The pages of the dictionary are of very high quality. 5. The dictionary is hard bound. Hence no need to worry about the pages of it which generally come out of the dictionaries (in other paperback dictionaries). 6. The font size of the printing is also large enough to read comfortably. You will not have to strain your eyes for reading it. 7. The printing quality is also of very fine quality. Contradictionary " Do you know the difference between acetic and ascetic? Burgers and burghers? Bucolic and alcoholic? Complacent, complaisant and compliant? A cassock, a Cossack, a hassock, a tussock, a hillock, a hummock and a pillock? If not, Fritz Spiegl's Contradictionary is the book for you. With entries varying from pithy brevity to mini essays, this quirky but well-informed textbook will be essential reading for anyone who has ever been caught using the wrong word in the wrong place (or been caught out being too clever by half)