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ISBN 10: 1-4405-7311-5
ISBN 13: 978-1-4405-7311-8
eISBN 10: 1-4405-7312-3
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Contains material adapted and abridged from Roget’s Thesaurus of Words for Intellectuals by David Olsen, Michelle Bevilacqua, and Justin Cord Hayes, copyright © 2011 by F+W Media, Inc., ISBN 10: 1-4405-2898-5, ISBN 13: 978-1-4405-2898-9; and The Words You Should Know to Sound Smart by Robert W. Bly, copyright © 2009 by Robert W. Bly, ISBN 10: 1-59869-886-9, ISBN 13: 978-1-59869-886-2.

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