Oxford Concise School Dictionary

ISBN: 9780199109692
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Features cover with annotated extract to give guidance on level, suitability, and content with new text for the market-leading school dictionary range.

• 40,000 words and phrases
• Comprehensive coverage of new words eg. air bag, alternative energy
• Information boxes give word families, usage, langauge and grammar notes
• Word origins give history of language
• Pronunciation guides help with unusual words eg. depot (say dep-oh), conscientious (say kon-she-en-shus)
• Idiomatic phrases and expressions fully defined
• Labels (formal/informal, in science fiction, in grammar) encourage accurate use of language
• Up-to-date example sentences and phrases show how words are used in context
• No confusing abbreviations
• Introduction shows how to use the dictionary
• Appendices include weights and measures and countries and peoples list