Merriam-Webster International Catalog, Fall/Winter 2023

This fall, our best-selling student dictionary is getting an update! This essential resource provides children with the guideposts that students need to build vocabulary, comprehend spelling, and better understand the world around them.

Merriam-Webster’s Elementary Dictionary features new vocabulary from a variety of fields, including the words climate change, emoji, GIF, toggle, and vegan. Definitions are enriched with nearly 1,300 quotes from popular and classic children's literature, with added examples from newer books such as The Season of Styx Malone, The Storm Runner, and I Love You, Michael Collins.

Also for fall, the trade paperback edition of The Merriam-Webster Thesaurus has been completely revised. This indispensable tool for readers and writers is a must-have addition to every bookshelf.

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Merriam-Webster's Ready-for-School Sticker Book 250 Words for Big Kids

For ages 3-6. Prepare for the adventure of starting school with Merriam-Webster’s playful book featuring 400 stickers! Label classroom objects, name animals at the zoo, identify different shapes and colors, and much more…

Merriam-Webster’s Ready-for-School Sticker Book is the ultimate activity book to help kids start school with confidence. Bursting with color, this book features words kids need to describe the world around them, from the classroom to the cafeteria, the playground to the zoo, at the park and at the farm, as well as key vocabulary to describe the weather and to identify colors, positions, textures, and shapes. There are plenty of activities to complete: match pictures with their labels, place stickers on backgrounds, trace letters, and other fun learning exercises!

With 400 stickers and bright, kid-friendly illustrations, this interactive book will help develop coordination and early literacy skills while opening up a brand-new vocabulary for children getting ready for school.

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Merriam-Webster’s Word Puzzle Adventures

For ages 6+. Set off on mind-expanding adventures with Merriam-Webster’s compendium of 100 word searches, crosswords, word games, and quizzes. Pit your wits against puzzles about animals, machines, space objects, crystals, and dinosaurs, and learn all about our amazing language along the way!

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Merriam-Webster’s Talk Like an Expert Dinosaurs: 400 Words for Budding Paleontologists

For ages 8+. Learn 400 words dinosaur scientists—or paleontologists—use, and learn how to talk like a dinosaur expert! Do you know what pieces of fossilized dinosaur poop are called? (Answer: Coprolites.) How about the large collar at the back of a Triceratops’s skull? (Answer: Frill.) Take a deep dive into the science behind these creatures with this impressive book from Merriam-Webster and learn 400 words you need to talk like a dinosaur expert! Travel back in time millions of years to discover how these extraordinary creatures lived, ate, fought, raised babies, and survived in the wild.

With full color illustrations and up-to-date scientific research, meet all different types of dinosaurs and learn how they evolved on a changing planet. Behind-the-scenes information on paleontology and scientists, plus an A-Z glossary, will leave readers not only talking like the experts, but thinking like them, too!

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Daniel Long graduated from Norwich University of the Arts in Norwich, United Kingdom, in 2014 and has been working as an illustrator since then. He recently illustrated DK's Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Life. His work is heavily influenced by midcentury design, architecture, and fashion, which can be easily seen in his use of color palettes and choice of subject matter.

Merriam-Webster’s Activity Mysteries by Tish Rabe

Meet Merriam and Webster! They're best friends who work together to solve mysteries wherever and whenever they occur. Follow these two junior detectives through 80 colorful pages of adventure and help solve activities to get them closer to their goal.

Written by award-winning children's book author, Tish Rabe, Merriam-Webster's Activity Mysteries contain fun rhyming text paired with delightfully creative word- and vocabulary-based activities. Whimsical illustrations by Xavi Ramiro bring this series to life, and every book includes a sticker sheet featuring characters from the book.

Merriam-Webster’s Activity Mysteries: Please Don’t Laugh, We Lost a Giraffe!

For ages 6+. Kid detectives Merriam and Webster can solve any mystery with a bit of help! Unscramble word puzzles, navigate letter mazes, and crack the codes to help solve this fun and surprising mystery tale written in rollicking verse.

Merriam and Webster travel to a local wildlife refuge to discover some terrible news: their favorite giraffe, Zari, is missing! As the kid detectives set out to find the missing giraffe, they encounter animals along the way who take part in their search. Can you piece together the clues and solve the word puzzles to reunite all the animals? ©2022

Merriam-Webster’s Activity Mysteries: Follow the Stars! What Happened on Mars?

For ages 6+. Merriam and Webster visit the International Space Station to discover that the Mars rover has stopped working! The kid detectives blast off in a rocket to find out what happened, uncovering clues among the stars and meeting galactic friends along the way. Can you help Merriam and Webster solve the word puzzles and crack the case of the Mars rover?

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For ages 3–6. Enter the world of Merriam-Webster's Ready-for-School Words and discover the words needed to describe the people, places, and things in your community and beyond! Featuring 1,000 words children should know before they start school, this charming book follows different families from their homes at the breakfast table, to their workplaces and classrooms, and on camping trips and seaside adventures. With labeled objects and simple sentences, children will start school with confidence and a brand new vocabulary.

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Hannah S. Campbell is a writer, editor, and lifelong word nerd. She has written children’s activity books based on the works of Roald Dahl and various Cartoon Network shows, and loves coming up with ways to have fun with language. She grew up in Dearborn, Michigan, and currently lives in Queens, New York.

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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day: 366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus

For ages 8–12. Become a word virtuoso in just one year with 366 crackerjack words aimed to impress. This charmingly illustrated book features boffo words selected by the masterminds at Merriam-Webster to highlight the best of the English language.

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For ages 0–3. Get babies and toddlers talking all day long with a colorful board book of first words and phrases created by the experts at MerriamWebster. This engaging large-format board book encourages toddlers' language learning through the repetition of simple words and phrases for everyday objects and activities.

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Aabhor v -horred; -horring : abominar : aborrecer

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: habilidad f abject adj : miserable : desdichado : abatido : desesperado : servil —

abjectly adv

abjure v -jured; -juring : abjurar de ablaze adj : ardiendo : en llamas : resplandeciente : radiante able adj abler; ablest : capaz : hábil : competente -able suf : -able

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abnormality n, pl -ties : anormalidad f aboard1 adv : a bordo aboard2 prep : a bordo de abode1 → abide abode2 n : morada f : residencia f : vivienda f abolish v : abolir : suprimir abolition n : abolición f : supresión f abominable adj : abominable : aborrecible : espantoso

abdominally adv

abduct v : raptar : secuestrar abduction n : rapto m : secuestro m

abductor n : raptor m, -tora f

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4 crow, howl, roar 5 laugh, whoop

6 guffaw, shriek cackle

3 gab, jaw 4 blab, chat, crow

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7 Autonoë

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wife: 8 Harmonia

cadre

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order: 5 latte

café

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cage

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6 record, report, review

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10 senescence 11 senectitude

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Caesar

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3 cur, dog, rat 4 boor, fink, heel, jerk, lout, rake, roué 5 creep, knave, louse, rogue, skunk, swine 6 rascal, rotter 7 bounder 9 conductor, scoundrel

cadaver

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5 ashen, gaunt, livid 6 pallid, wasted 7 deathly, ghastly, ghostly, shadowy

assassin: 6 Brutus (Marcus Junius)

7 Cassius (Gaius)

battle: 4 Zela 9 Pharsalus

conquest: 4 Gaul 7 Britain

death date: 4 Ides 11 Ides of March

eulogist: 6 Antony (Marc) 7 An-

thony (Mark) 8 Antonius (Marcus)

message: 12 Veni vidi vici

partner: 4 Coca (Imogene)

river: 7 Rubicon

utterance: 4 Et tu 9 Et tu Brute

wife: 7 Pompeia 8 Cornelia 9 Calpurnia

Caesarism

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caesura

5 break, pause 12 interruption

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brother: 4 Abel,

father: 4 Adam

land: 3 Nod

mother: 3 Eve

nephew: 4 Enos

son: 5 Enoch

victim: 4 Abel

Caine Mutiny

author: 4 Wouk

character: 5 Keith (Steve), Queeg (Capt. Cain novel

8 Serenade 13 Mildred

23 Postman Always (The) cajole

3 con 4 coax, dupe

7 beguile, blarney,

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