Longman Pocket Rogets Thesaurus Author:Peter Roget Roget's Thesaurus can be used for letters, reports, presentations, essays, CVs and speeches. It helps avoid repetiton of a word, find alternative words or recall words that have slipped the mind. The Roget's index lists possible meanings of each word so that the meaning can be identified. The main part of the book groups together alternative wor... more »ds and phrases and lets the reader choose between nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs. Over 150,000 words and phrases are contained here.« less