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Introduction Congratulations! You now own a powerful the- saurus that can be used at home or in school. This Oxford Children’s Thesaurus will not only help you find over 55,000 the- saurus entries, but it will also help you learn how to spell words, which contain synonyms, related words, and references to other the- saurus entries.
How to Use the Keys Backs up or erases letters. BACK Clears the word you entered. CLEAR Enters or selects a word, selects a ENTER game, or scrolls help messages. Shows the games. GAMES Shows help messages. HELP Shows your Personal words list. LIST Shows the next thesaurus entry.
How to Begin Here is how to start using your Oxford Children’s Thesaurus . 1. Turn your thesaurus over. 2. Remove its battery cover. 3. Insert four LR03 batteries (AAA batteries) into the battery compartment. Use the battery diagram in the battery compartment to insert batteries.
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How to Find Thesaurus Entries Each thesaurus entry can contain synonyms, re- lated words, and references to other thesaurus entries. Try this example. 1. Press CLEAR If you need to erase a letter, press Note: You cannot type capital letters. Some words in the thesaurus require a space ( air force) .
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How to Find Thesaurus Entries Words Without Thesaurus Entries If a word does not have any thesaurus entries, then its correct spelling appears in the word list. The word list contains all of the words that are found in this thesaurus. Use to move through this list.
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® How to Find Confusables Confusables are words that sound alike, are often confused, or are spelled similarly. When you see a question mark flash at the right of the screen, the entered or selected word has two or more Confusables. Try this example.
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How to Correct Misspellings The Oxford Children’s Thesaurus can im- prove your spelling by helping you to correct your misspelled words. Here’s how. 1. Type garaffe . Press letter. 2. Press ENTER The flashing T indicates that a word has one or more thesaurus entries.
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How to Find a Letter If you are not sure how to spell a word, you can type a question mark in place of each un- known letter. To type a question mark, press You can also type question marks in words to help solve crossword puzzles and similar word games.
How to Find a Series of Letters To find a series of letters, press an asterisk in a word. An asterisk stands for a series of letters in a word. Try this ex- ample. 1. Type penc . 2. Press An asterisk will appear at the end of the word penc .
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How to Save Words You can save up to 40 words in your Personal words list. Your Personal words list is where you can save words for study and review. The list will be saved until you erase it or replace batteries.
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How to View Your Saved Words After you have saved words to your Personal words list, you can then review them. 1. Press LIST 2. Press ENTER Words are shown in the order they were saved. 3. Press 4. Press CLEAR Deleting a Saved Word To delete a saved word from your Personal...
Changing the Game Settings You can select the skill level for the games and the words with which you will play the games, before you play. • Skill Level allows you to change the level of difficulty for the games. There are five skill levels;...
How to Play the Games This thesaurus has four word games that you can play. Hangman challenges you to guess a mys- tery word, indicated by ?’s, by typing its let- ters one at a time. 1. Press GAMES 2. Press then press An unknown word appears with the number of guesses remaining at the right.
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How to Play the Games Anagrams challenges you to find all of the words that can be made from the letters of a given word. Each letter can only be used as many times as it appears in the given word. The minimum word size will appear on the screen before each round begins.
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How to Play the Games 10. Press CLEAR In Jumble, you have to decipher jumbled let- ters to form one or more correctly spelled words. 1. Press GAMES 2. Press then press 3. Type an unscrambled word. If word is correct, You win!! appears and the word is displayed.
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How to Play the Games 7. Press to play another round. 8. Press CLEAR This is an electronic flashcards game. Flash- cards flashes words that you can study and then you can find their thesaurus entries. 1. Press GAMES 2. Press to move to Flashcards and then press ENTER...
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Model TCQ-200 • Oxford Children’s Thesarus • battery: 4 LR03 (AAA) batteries (not included) • size: 13.6 x 9.2 x 2.0 cm. • weight: 6.8 oz Cleaning and Customer Service To clean this product, spray a mild glass cleaner onto a cloth and wipe its surface.
Franklin will, at its option, repair or replace any product at no further charge to the end user on determination by Franklin, in its sole discretion, that the product was defective and that such defect arose within the duration of this limited warranty.
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