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INTRODUCTION
You Need No Special Instructions to use this book. But to get the most from it in the shortest time, you should first read the following guide to the use of the book. It explains the content and special features.
HOW TO USE THIS BOOK
Each of the words listed alphabetically in this book will be referred to here as an entry or an entry word.
1. Content
Webster's New World Word Book is easy to use. It is a quick, accurate, up-to-date guide to the correct spelling and syllabification of more than 30,000 words, based on the widely used Webster''s New World Dictionary of the American Language, College Edition. A special feature is the Word Finder Table, which will help you locate a word even though all you know about the word is how to pronounce it.
Many of the entries will settle questions about capitalization and hyphenation. Answers to specific questions such as the following can be found easily: What are the comparisons of many? When is staves used as a plural of staff? When is ringed used correctly as a verb?
An almost infinite number of words can be formed through the addition of certain prefixes or sufl5xes to base words. Many of these derived words have been V