I have a list of over 15,000 English words which I want you to extract via coding the synonyms supplied from Microsoft Word. Do not use any other Thesaurus refernces other then MS Word.
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For those words that MS Word doesn't provide any thesaurus, you could use any thesaurus references found on the net, or download this thesaurus db from: [login to view URL] , but if using any of these sources you must also filter them to select only the ones that are common, relevant and make some sense in today's spoken language. I'd rather have 3 useful synonyms than 50 irrelevant ones.
The format should be done in CSV (Excel) format, making a field for the root words and then another field for the synonyms.