Useful Websites
Dictionaries
Bartleby.com
Provides access to different electronic versions of different authoritative resources pertaining to reference (encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesaurus, etc.), verse, fiction, and nonfiction all free of charge.
http://www.bartleby.com
English-Spanish Dictionary
http://eubd1.ugr.es/tony/risweb.isa\
Merriam-Webster Online
The online version of the Merriam-Webster dictionary and Merriam-Webster thesaurus. Provides complete definitions of words, audio pronunciation, links to synonyms, antonyms, idioms, related words and sometimes color illustrations.
http://www.m-w.com
yourDictionary.com
Online version of Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary and Merriam-Webster Collegiate Thesaurus. There are also links to over 270 different language dictionaries, grammar instruction, specialty dictionaries covering over 90 topics, translation tools, language identifiers, and the "endangered language repository" which has various information on languages that are seldom spoken in the present day. Other links on the homepage include the "word of the day" which highlights and details a specific word, "Spanish word of the day" does the same for a word in Spanish, the library has collections of articles on languages written by prominent linguists and scholars in linguistics, "nyms and such" has links to language tools for pronunciation, rhyming, abbreviating, quotations, etc.
http://www.yourdictionary.com
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