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textbook

['tekst buk] = /ˈtekstbʊk/
  1. A textbook is a book that you use for studying at school.
    It’s not enough to attend the lectures; you also have to learn from the textbook.
    In college, there was nothing I hated more than reading big, heavy textbooks.