A volume designed to increase your command of the English language and build up your reserves of word power. It features: a comprehensive working vocabulary which takes modern needs and priorities into account; over 800 sections covering objects, activities and abstractions; related words, associations, figurative uses, idiomatic phrases and stylistic equivalents in both formal and colloquial language; full cross-referencing; expert input by compilers working within the system designed by P.M. Roget.