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Apr 08	Version 1.2
Feb 04	Version 1.1.100
Jan 23	New App: $24.99, v1.0

Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus

The Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus is the first thesaurus to be developed by writers, for writers.

In addition to the more than 300,000 synonyms and 10,000 antonyms found in the thesaurus, each of our distinguished editorial board members has contributed frank, funny, thoughtful, and, most of all, word-wise mini-essays on words that they particularly love, hate, admire, or are just plain puzzled by.

Even more helpful for writers in search of the perfect word, this new thesaurus contains nearly two hundred word banks, collections of nouns to add exact detail to your writing. (Was it just bread, or was it chapatti, rye, dal, or pita?) Brand-new word spectrums show where your word falls in a line between two polar opposites (passable is three-quarters of the way from beautiful to ugly).

Other features include quick guides to easily confused words; helpful, real-world usage guidance to tricky sticking points of grammar and word choice; and careful, expert distinctions among awkward synonyms.

Features:
• 300,000 synonyms and 10,000 antonyms.
• No wireless connection required
• Oxford editorial board member essays.
• Search for entries by name or browse the entire word list.
• View history of thesaurus views.
• $ 24.99 represents a 40% discount from the $40 MSRP for the Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus hardcover version.

"The best new array of synonyms around."--William Safire, The New York Times Magazine

"The only problem in consulting this book could be that the original purpose soon is lost while the reader becomes immersed in one fascinating passage after another." --Richmond Times Dispatch

"Written by writers for writers, this innovative thesaurus truly advances the time-honored word source."--American Libraries

"Perhaps the thesaurus's most fascinating feature is lengthy lists of words that link opposites--fat and thin, comic and tragic, interesting and boring. With this book close at hand, no one will call you the thesaurus's ultimate synonym for writer: a hack."--Village Voice

Note: The application requires at minimum 50 MB of free space to operate. If you do not have ample space on your iPhone or iPod Touch, you may experience issues with the application crashing.

What's new

- Big fixes
- Improved Handmark in-app store

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Last changed:

Apr 08, 2009

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Developer:

Handmark, Inc.

Version:

1.2

Average Rating:

3.50 (27)

Size:

5.6 MB

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