Franklin TMQ-100 User manual

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TMQ-100
User’s Guide
POCKET
THESAURUS

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Introduction
Congratulations. You now have a powerful
and portable electronic reference that you
can use at home, school, or work.
Using this product, you can. . .
• find thesaurus meanings,
• find synonyms, Classmates™,
idioms, and antonyms,
• check and correct spellings,
• find letters and fragments of words,
• view Confusables™, and
• play many educational word games.
Read on to learn how to use your new
Franklin thesaurus.
✓Resuming Where You Left Off
If you forget to turn this product off, do not
worry, it will automatically shut off within
two minutes.
If this product is turned off for any reason,
you will return to the last screen that you
viewed. Note: This will only work if you
have turned the demonstration off.

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Key Guide
Goes back, or erases a typed letter.
Clears to the Ready screen, or
stop the Quick Demo.
Views the Confusables™ of a word.
Enters a word, or scrolls the text.
Selects a game.
Views a help message.
Views the next entry or word.
Turns the product on or off.
Views the previous entry or word.
Types a ? to stand for any letter.
In games, ends a round and
shows the thesaurus entries.
Type an ✽ to stand for any series
of letters.
Scrolls up or types an apostrophe.
Scrolls down or types a full stop.
Scrolls left or types a space be-
tween letters.
Scrolls right.
BACK
CLEAR
CONF
ENTER
GAMES
HELP
NEXT
ON/OFF
PREV
?
✽

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Getting Started
1. Press ON/OFF.
The Quick Demo appears. You can stop the
demo at any time by pressing
CLEAR
.
2. Press or to adjust the contrast at
the Ready screen.
You can only adjust the contrast here.
3. If the screen is still blank, you may need
to change the battery.
See “Product Information” to learn how.
✓Disabling the Demo
You probably do not want to view the
Quick Demo every time you start. To dis-
able the demo, type
✽✽ d at the Ready
screen, then press
ENTER
. To enable the
demo, enter
✽✽ d again.

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Most thesaurus entries include a brief defini-
tion, or meaning core, and a related list of syn-
onyms or Classmates. (Classmates are words
related by subject.) Some entries include idi-
oms and antonyms. Note: If a word has no
thesaurus entry, Correct word will appear
when you enter it.
1. Type a word (e.g., tardy ).
To erase letters, press
BACK
or .
2. Press
ENTER
.
3. Press
ENTER
again to scroll through its
definition.
To stop scrolling, press
BACK
. You can
also press or to scroll slowly.
4. Press repeatedly to view its
synonyms or Classmates.
Looking Up Words

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Looking Up Words
5. Continue pressing to view its
idioms, if any.
6. Continue pressing to view its
antonyms, if any.
7. Press
BACK
to return to your word.

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Looking Up Words
✓Follow the Arrows
The flashing arrows at the right of the
screen show which arrow keys you can
press to view more words.
Remember, whenever you see a flashing
right arrow, you can press
ENTER
to auto-
matically scroll to the right.
✓Help is at Hand
At most displays, you can view an appro-
priate help message by pressing
HELP
. To
exit a help message, press
BACK
.
✓Viewing Multiple Entries
When a word has more than one thesau-
rus entry, a message such as Entry 1 of 5
appears before its first entry.
To view its other thesaurus entries, press
NEXT
. To view a previous entry, press
PREV
. If you press
NEXT
after its last en-
try,
No more! appears.

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Viewing Confusables™
Confusables are commonly confused words
such as homonyms and spelling variants. When
a C flashes to the right of a word in a thesaurus
entry, that word has Confusables. Try this
example.
1. Type
reign .
2. Press
ENTER
.
Notice the flashing C at the right of the
screen.
3. Press
CONF
.
4. Press to view more Confusables.

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Whenever you enter a misspelled word, a list
of corrections and similar words appear. Note:
If you enter a correctly spelled word that does
not have a thesaurus entry, Correct word ap-
pears. Try this example.
1. Type a misspelled word.
2. Press
ENTER
.
3. Press to view similar words.
Note: A flashing
T after a word shows
that it has at least one thesaurus entry. To
view its entry, press
ENTER
.
4. Press
CLEAR
when finished.
Correcting Misspellings

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To find unknown letters in words, type a ques-
tion mark for each unknown letter.
1. Type a word with ?’s for letters.
2. Press
ENTER
.
3. Press to view more words, if any.
4. Press
CLEAR
.
Finding Letters in Words
✓Help for Word Games
You can use ?’s to help solve crossword
puzzles and other word games.
For example, if the second letter of a five-
letter word is H and its last letter is W, en-
ter ?h??w and then scroll down to view
possible answers.

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Finding Parts of Words
✓Letter Finding Tips
You can type both ?’s and ✻’s in a word.
However, if you type either at the start of
the word, finding words may take a
while. Note: It is not necessary to type
two ✽’s in a row.
To find prefixes, suffixes, or fragments of a word,
type one or more ✻’s in the word. Each ✻stands
for any series of letters.
1. Type a word with one or more ✻’s.
2. Press
ENTER
.
3. Press to view more words.
4. Press
CLEAR
.

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Selecting Games
Before you can play a game, you need to
know how to select it and how to pick a skill
level.
There are five skill levels:
Beginner , Interme-
diate , Advanced , Expert , and Wizard . The
harder the skill level you choose, the longer
the word or shorter the time you have to win.
Follow these instructions before playing.
1. Press
GAMES
.
2. Press or until the game you
want to play is in view.
3. Press
ENTER
.
4. Press or until the skill level you
want is in view.
5. Press
ENTER
.
To return to the list of games, press
BACK
.

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Hangman challenges you to guess the letters of
a mystery word in a limited number of tries.
1. Select
Hangman .
2. Select a skill level.
mystery word tries left
3. Type letters.
4. Press
ENTER
to reveal a letter.
5. Press
?
to reveal the word.
6. Press
ENTER
to play a new round.
Hangman

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Anagrams
InAnagrams, you try to enter all the anagrams of
a word. An anagram is a word formed from
some or all of the letters of another word.
1. Select Anagrams .
2. Select a skill level.
word anagrams left
3. Type an anagram, then press
ENTER
.
If the anagram is correct, “OK” appears.
4. Enter more anagrams.
5. Press to review used anagrams.
6. Press
ENTER
to jumble letters.
7. Press
?
and then to view
all the anagrams.
8. Press
ENTER
to play a new round.

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In Jumble, a jumbled word appears and you
must unscramble the letters to spell a word or
words. Note: Some jumbles are formed from
more than one word.
1. Select
Jumble .
2. Select a skill level.
jumble number of words
3. Type a word, then press
ENTER
.
4. Press
ENTER
to re-jumble the letters.
5. Press
?
to reveal the answer.
6. Press
ENTER
to play a new round.
Jumble
✓Viewing Scores
When a round is over, a score of how many
rounds you have won and lost appears.
To reset the score to zero, press
GAMES
.

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Spelling Bee
In Spelling Bee, you try to spell the word that
flashes on the screen. The easier the skill level
you choose, the longer you have to view the
spelling word.
1. Select
Spelling Bee .
2. Select a skill level.
Look for the word to flash on the screen.
3. Type the word you just saw.
4. Press
ENTER
.
5. Press
ENTER
to play a new round.
Flashcards
In Flashcards, you are shown a randomly
selected word to study.
1. Select
Flashcards .
2. Select a skill level.
A word appears.
3. To view a new word, press
ENTER
.
4. If there is a flashing
? beside the word,
press
?
to view its thesaurus entry.
Spelling Bee, Flashcards

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In Word Builder, you can type in letters at the
Enter letters screen, and the game will build as
many words (anagrams) as possible. Try your
name.
1. Select
Word Builder .
2. Type in random letters or a word.
3. Press
ENTER
.
4. Press to view the list of anagrams.
5. Press
ENTER
to play a new round.
Word Builder
✓Viewing Game Words
After a round, in many of the games, the
word(s) played in the round appear.
If a game word has a thesaurus entry, a
flashing
? appears next to it. To view its
thesaurus entry, press
?
. Caution:
Pressing
?
at game word lists ends your
current game.

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Deduction is a decoder game. You have a limited
number of tries to guess the pattern of letters hid-
den by the question marks. The pattern will al-
ways be four letters long and include only the
letters “a-f”.
1. Select Deduction .
2. Select a skill level.
tries left pattern letter choices
3. Type in four letters from the choices to
the right (a,b,c,d,e,f).
4. Press
ENTER
.
“P” stands for perfect. If there is a number
beside “P”, you have that many letters in the
correct position.
Deduction

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Deduction
“M” stands for match. If you have a num-
ber beside “M”, you have that many let-
ters that match, but they are in the wrong
position.
5. Type in another pattern, then press
ENTER
.
6. Continue entering patterns until you
win.
Press the
?
to reveal the answer.
7. Press
ENTER
to play a new round.
8. Press
CLEAR
to return to the Ready
screen.

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In Word Blaster, you must guess the mystery
word before it fully appears. You must spell the
word correctly to win. Beginners have the most
time, and Wizards have the least.
1. Select Word Blaster .
2. Select a skill level.
You will see a row of question marks,
which represents a mystery word.
3. Press
ENTER
to stop the clock.
4. Type in your answer.
5. Press
ENTER
.
6. Press
?
to reveal the answer.
7. Press
ENTER
to play another round.
Word Blaster