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This thesaurus ﬁts the meaning of the word.  \nIT’S A TREASURE.”  \n—San Diego Writers’ Monthly  \n“A SOLID FRAME OF REFERENCE.”  \n—USA Today  \nTOMORROW’S CLASSIC FOR TODAY’S USER  \nQUANTITY SALES  \nMost Dell books are available at special quantity discounts when purchased in bulk by corporations, organizations, or groups. Special imprints, messages, and excerpts can be produced to meet your needs. For more information, write to: Dell Publishing, 1745 Broadway, New York, NY 10019. Attention: Director, Special Markets.  \nINDIVIDUAL SALES  \nAre there any Dell books you want but cannot ﬁnd in your local stores? If so, you can order them directly from us. You can get any Dell book currently in print. For a complete up-to-date listing of our books and information on how to order, write to: Dell Readers Service, Box DR, 1745 Broadway, New York, NY 10019.  \nROGET’S 21 ST  \nCENTURY THESAURUS  \nI N D I C T I O N A R Y F O R M  \nThird Edition  \nThe Essential Reference for Home, School, or Ofﬁce  \nEDITED BY THE PRINCETON LANGUAGE INSTITUTE  \nBarbara Ann Kipfer, Ph.D ., Head Lexicographer  \nProduced by The Philip Lief Group, Inc.  \nROGET’S 21ST CENTURY THESAURUS, 3rd EDITION A Delta Book / May 2005  \nPublished by arrangement with The Philip Lief Group, Inc.  \nPublished by  \nBantam Dell  \nA Division of Random House, Inc.  \nNew York, New York  \nAll rights reserved  \nCopyright © 1992, 1993, 1999, 2005 by The Philip Lief Group, Inc.  \nDelta is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication data on ﬁle with the publisher.  \nISBN 0-385-33895-3  \nPrinted in the United States of America Published simultaneously in Canada  \n[www.bantamdell.com](www.bantamdell.com)  \nBVG 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \nCONTENTS  \nPreface vii  \nIntroduction ix  \nA THESAURUS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 1  \nHow to Use the Concept Index 923  \nQuick Reference Guide to Concepts 925  \nCONCEPT INDEX 927  \nPREFACE  \nMore than ever before, our language and our ideas about language are changing as rapidly as the world around us. Our Information Age has been made possible, of course, by the ever-expanding technology of computers and the extraordinary explosion of information from the Internet and World Wide Web. We are receiving more information than we had ever imagined possible.  \nBut how do we process this information—and articulate it in speech and writing? With expanded research and development of artiﬁcial intelligence systems, we have been able to examine more closely the complex cognitive relationships human beings form between their ideas and the words they choose. We now know more about how this process works, and how it can be re-created. Learning from this, current lexicographical research must go beyond traditional methods and techniques to develop effective and contemporary reference materials for students, linguists, and writers.  \nMost people learn a new word by guessing, based on context, what that word means. Recent studies on students’ ability to develop reference skills bear this out. Combining this proven pattern with the advanced theories of language gained through electronic media, we have arrived at an“onomasiological” approach to understanding American English. That is, we are capable of traveling successfully from a meaning to a word instead of the straightforward dictionary approach of going from word to meaning. 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