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Franklin Thesaurus WM-1055 User Manual

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  • Page 1 Electronic Publishers THESAURUS WM-1055 User’ s Guide...

  • Page 2: Key Guide

    Key Guide Function Keys Erases a letter, or goes back a step. BACK Clears to Ready for word . CLEAR Shows Confusables, if any. CONF Enters a word or scrolls text. ENTER Shows the Games menu. GAMES Shows a help message. HELP Shows the Personal word list menu.

  • Page 3: Getting Started

    Getting Started Installing the Batteries 1. Turn the unit over. 2. Slide the battery cover off in the direction of the arrow. 3. Place the four AAA batteries inside the case following the diagram. Adjusting the Screen Contrast 1. Press ON/OFF. A brief demonstration appears.

  • Page 4: Looking Up Words

    Looking Up Words Almost every entry in this Thesaurus has a brief definition and a related list of synonyms or Classmates. (Classmates are words related by subject.) Some entries include idioms and ant- onyms. Note: Many words have more than one thesaurus entry.

  • Page 5: Follow The Arrows

    Looking Up Words 5. Continue pressing idioms, if any. 6. Continue pressing antonyms, if any. 7. Press NEXT to go to the next entry, if any. 8. Press CLEAR when done. Finding Help Information You can view help information at most screens by pressing HELP.

  • Page 6: Viewing Confusables

    Viewing Confusables Confusables are words that sound alike or are spelled similarly. Whenever a ? alternately flashes with arrows to the right of a word, that word has Confusables. Try this example. 1. Type reign . 2. Press ENTER. Notice the flashing ? at the right of the screen.

  • Page 7: Correcting Misspellings

    Correcting Misspellings Don’t worry if you misspell a word; a list of spell- ing corrections will automatically appear. Try this example. 1. Type a misspelled word. 2. Press ENTER. 3. Press to highlight a correction, if needed. If you see a flashing T , that word has a thesaurus entry.
  • Page 8 Finding Letters Use the question mark key to stand for un- known letters when you’re not sure how to spell a word. You can use more than one question mark in a word. Try this example. 1. Type a word with ?’s for letters. 2.

  • Page 9: Finding Parts Of Words

    Finding Parts of Words The asterisk stands for a series of unknown letters. Use it to find suffixes, prefixes, or any fragment of a word. You can type more than one asterisk in a word. 1. Type a word with one or more ’s. 2.

  • Page 10: Placing Notes

    Placing Notes Use the Personal word list for personal study or review. You can save up to 99 words in your list if they are words from this Thesuarus. Once you add your own words to the list, however, the number of words you can save decreases. Here is how to add and view your first word.

  • Page 11: Removing Notes

    Removing Notes You can remove words from your Personal word list one at a time or you can erase the whole list at once. Here is how. Deleting a Word 1. Press LIST. until you see Delete From List . 2.

  • Page 12: Playing The Games

    Playing the Games There are eight word games in this thesaurus. Here is how to start playing. The following pages give an overview of each game. 1. Press GAMES. 2. Select Skill Level . 3. Press and then press ENTER to select it. 4.
  • Page 13 Playing the Games Hangman Hangman challenges you to guess a mystery word, hidden by ?’s, one letter at a time. The number of wrong guesses you can make ap- pears to the right of the ?’s. For a hint press to end the round.

  • Page 14: Spelling Bee

    Playing the Games Type an anagram and then press ENTER. Use the arrow keys to view anagrams you’ve al- ready entered. Press to jumble the letters. Press to quit and reveal the remaining ana- grams. Press NEXT to start a new round. Word Jumble Here you try to unscramble the letters on the screen.
  • Page 15 Playing the Games Word Builder Word Builder is an Anagrams game where you type your own game word. Type a word from this Thesaurus and press ENTER. The num- ber to the right of your word shows how many anagrams can be made. Type anagrams. To jumble the letters, press the answers, press Word Blaster...
  • Page 16 Playing the Games Deduction Deduction challenges you to guess the mys- tery pattern represented by the four question marks. Type letters (a-f) and then press EN- TER. You can use a letter more than once. Af- ter entering your guess, a scorecard appears showing the number of correct letters Per- fectly located (P) or Misplaced (M).

  • Page 17: Product Care

    (2) This device must ac- cept any interference received, including interfer- ence that may cause undesiredoperation. Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents, ISBN: © 1987-1994 Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. Mt. Holly, NJ 08060 USA. All rights reserved. U.S. PATENTS: 4, 490,811; 4,830,618; 4,891,775; 5,007,019; 5,113,340; 5,203,705; 5,218,536;...

  • Page 18: Limited Warranty

    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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