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

2 Atlas A book of maps and charts

3 Almanac Published yearly. Gives facts on many subjects.
Contains information that happened the year before. Contains an index.

4 Dictionary Definition Spelling Pronunciation
Abridged- contains only the most common English words and their definitions. Unabridged – contains all the words in the English language.

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

6 Biographical Dictionary

7 Geographical Dictionary
Westminster Abbey A dictionary of cities and countries of the world. Mt. Kilimanjaro

8 Thesaurus HAPPY FORTUNATE LOVE AFFECTION STOP HALT HATE DETESTATION
A dictionary of words that have similar meanings.

9 Reader’s Guide Book of magazine topics Listed in alphabetical order
by subject

10 THE END


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