ROSALIND FERGUSSON

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This is a revised edition of the existing Nuttall's Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms that is designed to help widen the reader's vocabulary. Lists of synonyms provide alternative words of the same meaning while lists of antonyms provide words of opposite meaning.