English dictionary & thesaurus comprehensive english reference suite (81 pages)
Summary of Contents for Franklin TMQ-100
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® All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Electronic Publishers OCKET HESAURUS User’s Guide TMQ-100...
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, and • play many educational word games. Read on to learn how to use your new Franklin thesaurus. Resuming Where You Left Off If you forget to turn this product off, do not worry, it will automatically shut off within two minutes.
All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Key Guide BACK Goes back, or erases a typed letter. CLEAR Clears to the Ready screen, or stop the Quick Demo. ™ CONF Views the Confusables of a word. ENTER Enters a word, or scrolls the text. GAMES Selects a game.
All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Getting Started 1. Press ON/OFF. The Quick Demo appears. You can stop the demo at any time by pressing CLEAR 2. Press to adjust the contrast at the Ready screen. You can only adjust the contrast here. 3.
All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Looking Up Words Most thesaurus entries include a brief defini- tion, or meaning core, and a related list of syn- onyms or Classmates. (Classmates are words related by subject.) Some entries include idi- oms and antonyms.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Looking Up Words 5. Continue pressing to view its idioms, if any. 6. Continue pressing to view its antonyms, if any. 7. Press to return to your word. BACK...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Looking Up Words Follow the Arrows The flashing arrows at the right of the screen show which arrow keys you can press to view more words. Remember, whenever you see a flashing right arrow, you can press to auto- ENTER matically scroll to the right.
All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com ™ Viewing Confusables Confusables are commonly confused words such as homonyms and spelling variants. When a C flashes to the right of a word in a thesaurus entry, that word has Confusables. Try this example.
All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Correcting Misspellings Whenever you enter a misspelled word, a list of corrections and similar words appear. Note: If you enter a correctly spelled word that does not have a thesaurus entry, Correct word ap- pears.
All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Finding Letters in Words To find unknown letters in words, type a ques- tion mark for each unknown letter. 1. Type a word with ?’s for letters. 2. Press ENTER 3. Press to view more words, if any. 4.
All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Finding Parts of Words To find prefixes, suffixes, or fragments of a word, type one or more ’s in the word. Each stands for any series of letters. 1. Type a word with one or more ’s. 2.
All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Selecting Games Before you can play a game, you need to know how to select it and how to pick a skill level. There are five skill levels: Beginner , Interme- diate , Advanced , Expert , and Wizard . The harder the skill level you choose, the longer the word or shorter the time you have to win.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Hangman Hangman challenges you to guess the letters of a mystery word in a limited number of tries. 1. Select Hangman . 2. Select a skill level. mystery word tries left 3. Type letters. 4.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Anagrams In Anagrams, you try to enter all the anagrams of a word. An anagram is a word formed from some or all of the letters of another word. 1. Select Anagrams . 2.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Jumble In Jumble, a jumbled word appears and you must unscramble the letters to spell a word or words. Note: Some jumbles are formed from more than one word. 1. Select Jumble . 2.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Spelling Bee, Flashcards Spelling Bee In Spelling Bee, you try to spell the word that flashes on the screen. The easier the skill level you choose, the longer you have to view the spelling word.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Word Builder In Word Builder, you can type in letters at the Enter letters screen, and the game will build as many words (anagrams) as possible. Try your name. 1. Select Word Builder . 2.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Deduction Deduction is a decoder game. You have a limited number of tries to guess the pattern of letters hid- den by the question marks. The pattern will al- ways be four letters long and include only the letters “a-f”.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Deduction “M” stands for match. If you have a num- ber beside “M”, you have that many let- ters that match, but they are in the wrong position. 5. Type in another pattern, then press ENTER 6.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Word Blaster In Word Blaster, you must guess the mystery word before it fully appears. You must spell the word correctly to win. Beginners have the most time, and Wizards have the least. 1.
Warranty (U.K. only) This product, excluding batteries, is guaranteed by Franklin for a period of one year from the date of purchase. It will be repaired or replaced (at Franklin’s option) free of charge for any defect due to faulty workmanship or materials.