This site provides web-based access to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition; Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition; Simpson's Contemporary Quotations; and The American HeritageÆ Book of English Usage, published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Anyone looking for "a metaphor characterized by its overuse" will be sure to enjoy this site. Cliches of all sorts are to be found here. Users may search by keyword, ask for a random ten cliches at a time, or check the links to other sites.
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A simple searchable A-Z index of over 13,900 difficult words from The Hutchinson Dictionary of Difficult Words. Includes many foreign words used in the English language today.
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A comprehensive directory of thousands of glossaries available on the WWW. The directory may be searched by keyword or browsed in more than 130 categories. Offers access to vocabularies for a wide range of topics at various levels of specificity.
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