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This book was written to help avid readers expand their vocabularies with commonly encountered literary, Latin, historic and philosophic words and phrases. It includes: Â- Words such as sciolist, millenarianism, hermeneutics, apodictic, parturient, antistasis, latitudinarian, charybdis, pantagruelian, doxa, anoesis, zugzwang, morosoph, phenomenology, quondam, eldritch and stochastic. Â- Latin phrases like vae victis, margaritas ante porcos, and memento mori. Â- Root words including ruth (for ruthless). Â- Enlightening word comparisons like putative, purported and ostensible. Â- Proper words such as Muses, who they were and what each represents. Â- Historic phrases like "crossing the Rubicon" and to "go to Canossa".
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Title of
ebook: A Reader's Companion
ISBN: 9780595895816
Publisher:
iUniverse, Inc.
Internet download file size: 1438 kb
Released online for download: 06-25-2007
Author of eBook: Bowman, John L
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