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Price: $47.95

Format:
Paperback 538 pp.
156 mm x 234 mm

ISBN-10:
0194313085

ISBN-13:
9780194313087

Publication date:
March 1997

Imprint: OUP UK

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Oxford Learner's Wordfinder Dictionary

Hugh Trappes-Lomax

A resource book which starts from ideas and guides students to the words needed to express them.

TOPIC AREAS
1. People
2. Your body, personal appearance and clothes
3. Everyday life
4. Food and drink
5. Where you live
6. The natural environment
7. Animals and other living things
8. Work, business, industry and technology
9. Money and buying and selling
10. Education and science
11. Leisure, sport, art and music
12. Transport, travel and holidays
13. Government and politics
14. The law and crime
15. Fighting and war
16. Illness and injury
17. Religion and beliefs
18. Language and communication
19. The media and literature
20. Knowing, thinking, feeling, wanting, liking
21. Situations, actions, events and movement
22. Time and place
23. Describing objects and materials; measuring; counting

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Hugh Trappes-Lomax is at University of Edinburgh.

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Special Features

  • Allows the user to go from the known to the unknown, by grouping vocabulary around 640 keywords.
  • Shows words related by meaning and use: synonyms, opposites, derivatives, the verbs to go with the nouns, etc.
  • Gives all the words needed to talk about a particular subject: invaluable for preparing a talk, planning an essay or writing a letter.
  • Provides Topic Areas which suggest a framework for systematic vocabulary expansion.
  • Helps with structures and linguistic problem areas.
  • An ideal resource for revision.