Putnam's Word Book

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Putnam's Word Book, by Louis A. Flemming This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Putnam's Word Book Author: Louis A. Flemming Release Date: August 15, 2004 [EBook #13188] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PUTNAM'S WORD BOOK *** Produced by the Distributed Proofreaders. PUTNAM'S WORD BOOK A PRACTICAL AID IN EXPRESSING IDEAS THROUGH THE USE OF AN EXACT AND VARIED VOCABULARY BY LOUIS A. FLEMMING Copyright, 1913 BY G. P. Putnam's Sons (Under the title Synonyms, Antonyms, and Associated Words) PREFACE The purpose of this book, as conceived by the author, is not to attempt to create or to influence usage by pointing out which words should or should not be used, nor to explain the meaning of terms, but simply to provide in a form convenient for reference and study the words that can be used, leaving it to those who consult its pages to determine for themselves, with the aid of a dictionary if necessary, which words supply the information they are looking for or express most accurately the thoughts in their minds. The questions, therefore, that were constantly in the author's mind while he was preparing the manuscript were not, is this word used? nor should it be used?