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General Reference Books Atlas Almanac Dictionary Encyclopedia Biographical Dictionary Thesaurus Geographical Dictionary Reader’s Guide

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General Reference Books

Atlas Almanac Dictionary

Encyclopedia Biographical Dictionary Thesaurus

Geographical Dictionary Reader’s Guide

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Atlas

A book of maps and charts

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Almanac Published yearly. Gives facts on

many subjects. Contains

information that happened the year before.

Contains an index.

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Dictionary

Definition

Spelling

Pronunciation

Abridged- contains only the most common English words and their definitions.Unabridged – contains all the words in the English language.

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Encyclopedia

Encyclopedia is a set of books (or a one-volume book) that gives general information on many topics.

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Biographical Dictionary

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Geographical Dictionary

A dictionary of cities and countries of the world. Westminster Abbey

Mt. Kilimanjaro

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Thesaurus

A dictionary of words that have similar meanings.

LOVE AFFECTION

HATE DETESTATION

HAPPY FORTUNATE

STOP HALT

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Reader’s Guide

•Book of magazine topics• Listed in alphabetical order by subject

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