An updated and expanded edition contains more than 115,000 definitions, covering current phrases, slang, and scientific terms, and including advice on usage and grammar, notes on etymology, foreign words and phrases, and a world gazetteer. Reprint."
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Very complete for a paperback,
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This review is from: The New American Webster Handy College Dictionary: New Third Edition (Paperback)
Among paperback dictionaries, the NAWHCD excels in its completeness and its usage guidance. I appreciate those features in my big American Heritage Dictionary, too, but the NAWHCD is more convenient to keep on my desk, and I like having two different dictionaries so I can get a second opinion.Virtually every page in the NAWHCD has helpful notes on usage or word origin. Correct usage is generally favored over popular usage, e.g., "imply" and "infer" are distinguished without waffling. "Lay" and "lie" and their often-confused past tenses and participles are sorted out in a note, and now that I know the differences I'm annoyed by how many people don't. I examined several paperback dictionaries before selecting this one even though it didn't have a top brand name. The more I use it, the more I like it.
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First word I looked up not there!,
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This review is from: The New American Webster Handy College Dictionary: New Third Edition (Paperback)
Disingenuous/adj. having secret motives; insincere...The first word I looked up (to check the spelling). I don't look too many up, but when I do I expect to find them. This one was not there. And I only have a high school diploma. Guess they use smaller words in the college where this dictionary is handy. Maybe in the fourth edition...
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