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Consists of 9 thousand nouns, verbs and adjectives and 150 thousand variants of its
collocations
There are clear definition of words and examples but there is no transcription
E.g. beauty noun
1. quality of being beautiful
o ADJ. breathtaking, extraordinary, great, outstanding, sheer an area of
breathtaking beauty | classical the classical beauty of her face | natural |
physical | scenic
o BEAUTY + VERB last|fade Her beauty faded as she got older.
o BEAUTY + NOUN competition, contest | queen | parlour, salon |treatment |
spot
o PHRASES beauty is in the eye of the beholder, beauty is only skin-deep
o ADJ. great She was known as a great beauty in her time. | absolute, real My new
car’s a real beauty! | little Isn’t she a little beauty?
The dictionary includes Study Pages which consists of practical exercises on a specific
topic (e.g. education, politics, using a verb entry, money etc) where you should complete
sentence, match each of the adjectives on the left with a suitable noun from the facing
column, cross out any incorrect word in a sentence etc.
At the end of the dictionary there are keys to these exercises
You can also find small images and tables for some words (e.g. clothes)