eBooks - Education - Education - John L Bowman - A Reader's Companion
A Reader's Companion eBook
by John L Bowman
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A Reader's Companion Summary
| This book was written to help avid readers expand their vocabularies with commonly encountered literary, Latin, historic and philosophic words and phrases. It includes: ? Words such as sciolist, millenarianism, hermeneutics, apodictic, parturient, antistasis, latitudinarian, charybdis, pantagruelian, doxa, anoesis, zugzwang, morosoph, phenomenology, quondam, eldritch and stochastic. ? Latin phrases like vae victis, margaritas ante porcos, and memento mori. ? Root words including ruth (for ruthless). ? Enlightening word comparisons like putative, purported and ostensible. ? Proper words such as Muses, who they were and what each represents. ? Historic phrases like "crossing the Rubicon" and to "go to Canossa". |
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