Reference, Education & Teaching 

Do you have word trouble?

How often do you stop short in the midst of talking or writing because you can't think of the right word? More often than you like to realize? It's embarrassing - and very annoying. The idea is clear in your mind. The word with the exact shade of meaning is right on the tip of your tongue. But it stays there while you use a poor substitute, and you manage to remember it just as you're dropping off to sleep.

Roget's Thesaurus will end your word troubles. Here is a treasury of synonyms and antonyms arranged according to subject. You can start with the broadest, most general idea. You will find words and phrases to express all the shades and modifications of that idea. Once you've used a thesaurus you will, with Franklin P Adams, "bless, set store by, celebrate, commend, acclaim, appreciate" its "merit, goodness, value, worth."

Taken from the back cover.