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The Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries are a team of professional lexicographers with advanced degrees in various scholarly fields. The editors familiarize themselves with the vocabulary in specific subject areas, collect materials on new developments and usage, and work with expert consultants to ensure that the content of our publications is as accurate and as up-to-date as possible.
Deleted from this edition are illustrative quotes (unfavorably viewed by RBB in its review of the 1988 edition), but added are helpful slang and regional synonyms and more idioms. Also added are clearer differentiations among senses of a word. The definitions provided for each headword are less telegraphic in writing style than those in the 1988 edition, but may, in some cases, be misleading. The editors indicate that every definition was checked by the editors of the American Heritage Dictionary (3d ed.). However, some definitions do not seem to reflect this process. For example, distraught is still defined as "afflicted with or exhibiting irrationality and mental unsoundness," even though the American Heritage Dictionary defines the most common sense of the word as "deeply agitated, as from emotional conflict" .
Roget's II does not provide the comprehensive coverage of Roget's International Thesaurus (HarperCollins, 1992) or Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus (Dell, 1992). However, its alphabetical sequence of headwords supplemented by a category index and plentiful cross-references supplies an array of colorful and vivid synonyms that will be helpful for writers who do not have the time to engage in the long process of using a classified or category-indexed thesaurus like those mentioned above. Recommended for all types of public and academic libraries and for high-school libraries.
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