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Title: Great software, dictionary, pronuciation, lousy thesaurus
Review: This loaded easily and quickly into my i book. The collegiate dictionary is excellent and the pronunciations are helpful and standard pronunciations. The search functions are great. My complaint: What is with the thesaurus? This has to be one of the thinnest, most incomplete thesauri on the market! Many, many words that are unusual but have that special zing and pop you want from a thesaurus are missing. This thesaurus will not improve your writing a great deal. It seems as if words are only included if they are in very common usage today. Who needs a thesaurus if it will only mirror the blandness that surrounds us? MW also sticks to words that are exact synonyms as if thesaurus users do not like to wander into subtle shades of meaning. I consider the MW thesaurus a waste of money. Go with Rodale's synonym finder or an old edition of Roget (the new one is a mess). You will find plenty of off beat words there.
