NTC's Pocket Dictionary of Words and Phrases part 4. The small but very concise NTC's Pocket Dictionary of Words and Phrases offers 6,000 basic and common English words plus 6,000 basic and common English idioms and phrases. You will find this portable title essential in the classroom, at home, or traveling, when you need help to recall word and phrase meanings. | Lists of Words perfume rebound row used used to permit recess separate why present record sewer wind proceed recount sow wound proceeds refund survey produce refuse suspect progress reject tear project replay torment protest research upset read retake upstairs rebel rewrite use xxx TLFeBOOK Abbreviations and Symbols Q @ @ etc. a number within a circle refers to the sense number of a word. The circled number by itself refers to a sense within the entry in which the circled number is found. adj. adjective adv. adverb conj. conjunction cont. contraction interj. interjection interrog. interrogative irreg. irregular iv. intransitive verb n. noun nominal phr. phrase prep. preposition tv. transitive verb Copyright 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc Click Here for Terms of Use. TLFeBOOK xxxi Pronunciation The symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet are used to show the pronunciation of the words in this dictionary. The speech represented here is that of educated people but it is not formal or overly precise. It is more representative of the West and the middle of the country than of the East South or upper Midwest. Pronunciation of American English is variable in different regions of the country but most native speakers of American English can understand one another quite well. The goal of the pronunciation scheme is to provide the student with one acceptable model of pronunciation for each entry. Where the numbered senses of an entry are all pronounced the same way the phonetic representation follows the main entry word. In entries where even one of the numbered senses is pronounced differently from the rest all the senses are provided with a phonetic representation. Sounds represented here as or are often pronounced as or in some parts of the East. Similarly the sequence Er is often pronounced Ar in parts of the East. One heavy stress is marked for each word. The dictionary user should expect to hear variation in the pronunciation of most of the words listed in
