Kniha Reader's Companion John L Bowman

Reader's Companion

3,500 Words and Phrases Avid Readers Should Know

Autor: John L Bowman
Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Brožovaná
Vydavatel: iUniverse
Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele
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This book was written to help avid readers expand their vocabularies with commonly encountered liter...

Informace o knize

Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Brožovaná
Vydáno
2007
Stránek
248
EAN
9780595452668
ISBN
9780595452668
Enbook ID
07368765
Vydavatel
Hmotnost
367
Rozměry
152 x 229 x 14

Kompletní popis

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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