Finding A Synonym - Franklin LWB-1216 Parents' Manual

FINDING A SYNONYM

The FRANKLIN CHILDREN'S DICTIONARY includes a
thesaurus to help children find synonyms. Synonyms are
words that have the same or similar meanings, for
example, gem, jewel, precious stone. Synonyms for a
word can be found by typing the word at the thesaurus
Word Entry screen and pressing . Thesaurus
entries (when available) can also be looked up from the
definition of a word, and the definition of a word (when
available) can also be found from a thesaurus entry.
Each thesaurus entry consists of: a) The headword (the
word being looked up), in bold b) The part of speech, in
italics, c) An example sentence using the headword, in ital-
ics, d) Synonyms or words of similar meaning and e) A
word that has the opposite meaning to the word that is
looked up. For example, the entry for admire, has "
AN
: despise."
OPPOSITE IS
When a word can be used in more than one sense, each
new sense is numbered and comes with its own example
sentence or phrase and list of synonyms. Informal words
are called out in brackets; for example, the entry for guts
has [informal] before the example sentence.
Some words may have cross-references, or suggestions
to look up other entries. For example, the thesaurus entry
for brass, has " , metal."
FOR OTHER METALS SEE
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