Help your students find the right word for any occasion. Organized in an easy-to-use alphabetical format, this vocabulary catalog offers a wide range of synonym selection, phrasal verbs, and idioms---including informal, slang, and regional terms. Entries feature precise definition, nuance explanations, sentence and quotation illustrations, and an array of closely related variants. 907 pages, thumb-indexed hardcover from Houghton Mifflin.