Tom McArthur Books

Designed to help students of English to increase their vocabulary, this contains over 15,000 entries covering 130 topics, from life and animals to war and peace. It brings together words with related meanings and lists them in sets to show the differences and similarities between them.

Thirty-five hundred entries offer information of writing and speech, linguistics, rhetoric, literary terms, and related topics. Contains a chronology of English and Roman times to 1990, and an index of people who appear in entries, and biographies of influential figures such as Noah Webster and Noam Chomsky