The books compiled by Wang Li and his colleague Gao Zu are only Wang Li's Dictionary of Ancient Chinese, but there is no dictionary. Moreover, this dictionary pays attention to the generality of the meaning of words, and tends to simplify dozens or even more than 20 meanings of other dictionaries into three or five or even one or two meanings, which has its own significance in the study of ancient Chinese. It pays little attention to the explanation of this phenomenon.
If you like to collect more words, you can buy a simplified version of the Chinese Dictionary, which is still relatively complete in domestic dictionaries. If you like interchangeable words, buy a dictionary of interchangeable words and search online yourself.
In fact, reading ancient books depends more on accumulation. With a large amount of reading, many so-called "Tong Jia" can be understood naturally, because some so-called "Tong Jia" characters are actually newly created words (that is, ancient and modern words) for the meaning derived from an ancient word, and some meanings can be fully explained by the original words, but for the convenience of ancient Chinese teaching (especially middle school teaching), it is unnecessary to say that it is Tong Jia.
In fact, reference books such as the Dictionary of Generic Words can only be used as reference in the future, not as reference books for reading on the desk. It is only possible to use this reference book in some particularly uncommon and difficult places (and it is not the first choice, because it is of course more convenient to read if it has annotations. If there are no notes, read Notes on Explaining Chinese Characters and Notes on Explaining Chinese Characters. Of course, if your purpose is to study interchangeable words, that is another matter.
Reading is the most taboo, especially when you are not an expert, you need to have basic respect for your predecessors. It is not appropriate to say that a book is "rotten" at every turn. Excuse me, the number of words included in Xinhua Dictionary can't meet the needs of people above middle school, but must we say that Xinhua Dictionary is a bad dictionary? It should still make outstanding contributions in popularizing culture to primary and secondary school students and highly concentrating the basic meaning of Chinese characters. The primary function of the Dictionary of Common Words in Ancient Chinese lies in the popularization of ancient Chinese and the generalization of the meanings of common words. I'm afraid it's wrong to deny it rashly