E. L. Thorndike

Preface To put the proper word in the proper place or to comprehend fully what you read or hear is not easy. The Advanced Dictionary has been specially designed to help high-school and mature junior high-school students by bringing to them the essential information about vocabulary needed by...

TO THE TEACHER AND PARENT The ideal dictionary for a young learner is a book that will help him learn the meaning of any word that he needs to understand, the spelling of any word that he needs to write, and the pronunciation of any word that he needs to speak. It will give him the help that he...