If you’re trying to achieve a good command of fluency-relevant vocabulary, a conventional thesaurus won’t be of much help — no matter how helpful it may be for other purposes. To achieve a good command of fluency-relevant vocabulary, you need dedicated fluency-oriented vocabulary building books — books that focus on fluency-building vocabulary
And the Core Fluency Thesaurus is a dedicated fluency-oriented vocabulary building book — and the first thesaurus of its kind. From the world’s foremost authority on fluency building. And it groups together, under headwords, word groups that express meanings similar to, or somewhat similar to, its important meanings. These are groups of words that individual words tend to form with other words, with a more-than-chance frequency: Phrases, collocations, phrasal verbs, idioms and other multi-word items that have the property of adding to your fluency. The author has marked how relatively frequent/important (for fluency training) a headword is with the indicators ‘AAA’, ‘AA’ and ‘A’. Headwords marked ‘AAA’ are more frequent/important than those marked ‘AA’ and ‘A’. And headwords marked ‘AA’ are more frequent/important than those marked ‘A’.

If you’re an advanced user of English – someone who has to make heavy use of fluent English in his/her everyday life – you need this book.
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Цитата:
*LL.M. (International Business Law) (1992), University of LondonCKing’s College London; J.D. (1991), Paul M.
Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University; M.S. Electrical Engineering (1990), B.S.E.E. (1987), Louisiana State
University. The author is an associate in the intellectual property section and international law practice group in the
Houston office of Jackson & Walker, L.L.P., and is licensed to practice in Louisiana and Texas, and before the U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office. [Updated author info as of 2002: see www.KinsellaLaw.com.]
The author would like to thank J. Lanier Yeates and Professor Robert Pascal for their helpful comments on an
earlier draft of the article. Of course, any remaining mistakes are those of the author alone.
(Version submitted to Louisiana Law Review; slightly edited version published in Vol. 54,
No. 5 (May 1994))
Alone in the common-law ocean of these United States, Louisiana is an island of civil law.
Louisiana’s civil law is embodied in the Louisiana Civil Code, much of the text of which was
derived in part from the Code of Napoleon of 1804.1 American common-law lawyers often
encounter Louisiana’s civilian terms and concepts when dealing with lawsuits or transactions in
Louisiana. No doubt they (and even Louisiana lawyers) are sometimes confused. How many
common-law lawyers know of naked owners, usufructs, virile portions, vulgar substitutions,
synallagmatic contracts, mystic testaments, antichresis, whimsical conditions, or lesion beyond
moiety? Even many Louisiana-trained attorneys are unfamiliar with terms such as amicable
compounder, jactitation, mutuum, and commodatum. Thus a dictionary of these and other civil law
terms might come in handy to some practitioners.
In the main table below, various Louisiana civilian concepts are defined, and correlated with
common-law concepts where possible. The civilian terms defined in the table generally have some
counterpart in common-law terminology, are interesting or unique Louisiana civilian concepts, are
different uses of words than in the common law, or are simply used more often in Louisiana than in
her sister states.
Some of the Louisiana expressions discussed herein are used commonly in states other than
Louisiana. Similarly, common-law terminology is used increasingly in Louisiana as a result of the
influence of Louisiana’s 49 sister states, where civilian terminology should be properly used instead.
For example, the common-law term stare decisis is often used, erroneously, in Louisiana instead of
jurisprudence constante (see below); the civilian concept “immovable property” has been used in
Texas statutes.2 Therefore, many of the civil-law and common-law concepts discussed herein are
sometimes used in a state with the other legal system.
Usage of the Tables
Terms printed in SMALL CAPS are discussed in separate entries in the table. A crossreferenced
term such as PROCEDURE--POSSESSORY ACTION refers to the concept “possessory action,”
which is discussed under the entry “Procedure.” Terms defined are sorted alphabetically. In case of
phrases, the first letter only of the phrase is capitalized. Where several related concepts are
discussed together, they are placed alphabetically according to the spelling of the first term
mentioned, and cross-references elsewhere in the table refer the reader to the appropriate location.
For example, the table entry “Collateral relations, Propinquity of consanguinity” discusses both
these concepts, and is alphabetically sorted under the first term. Additionally, the separate table
entry “Propinquity of consanguinity” refers the reader back to the “Collateral relations” entry.
Common-law terms are printed in bold print in the main table. A second table is provided
listing significant common-law terms mentioned in the first table, and providing a correlation to the
appropriate entry in the main table.
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The dictionary that helps students write and speak natural-sounding English,
now in a new edition with CD-ROM.

Which words usually go together? This dictionary shows you
the common word combinations (collocations) that are essential
for natural-sounding British and American English.

Completely revised and extended, the new edition has
over 250,000 collocations and over 75,000 examples.

New for this edition:
* Based on the Oxford English Corpus, a 2-billion word corpus
that provides authoritative information on the most typical collocations.
* Collocations only found in British or American English are clearly labelled.
* Examples, using British and American English,
show how collocations work in context.
* Headwords printed in blue help you find the right word faster.
* CD-ROM with the complete dictionary, a searchable index
that makes it easy to find the collocation you are looking for,
and practice exercises.
* CD-ROM has pop-up definitions of every word included
in the dictionary, with spoken pronunciation of British and American English.

Also included:
* Collocations grouped according to part of speech and meaning.
* Usage notes show collocations shared by sets of words
such as languages and seasons.
* 16-page Study section.

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It may very well be the longest book title ever. "Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases: A Practical Handbook of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, and Oratorical Terms, for the Embellishment of Speech and Literature, and the Improvement of the Vocabulary of Those Persons Who Read, Write, and Speak English." But it's a wonderful resource for writers. I downloaded the e-book version of this (Sorry, Amazon!) and then downloaded the file (in many parts) to my iPod, to use during essay writing at school. I use it at home when I write my own short stories. I use some of the phrases in my speech, and I can assuredly say, everyone needs a little pizazz in their speech
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The Communication 3000 is a list of the 3000 most frequent words in both spoken and written English, based on statistical analysis of the 390 million words contained in the Corpus Network – a group of corpuses or databases of authentic English language. The Communication 3000 represents the core of the English language and shows students of English which words are the most important for them to learn and study
in order to communicate efectively in both speech and writing.

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Workbook 1 features:
Imaginative activities including dot-to-dots, puzzles and coloring exercises
Reading and writing practice
Pull-out answer key for teachers and parents

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