This thesaurus helps you to express yourself more accurately and in more interesting and varied ways. By listing groups of words that have similar meanings to each other, it offers a choice of alternative words (synonyms) that can be used in place of one that you already have in mind. This new edition offers an array of new features and other improvements. They have added thousands of new examples from the Oxford English Corpus, a huge database of English containing hundreds of millions of words, making it easier than ever before to find the meanings that you want.