| A Reader's Companion: 3,500 Words and Phrases Avid Readers Should Know Contributor(s): Bowman, John L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0595452663 ISBN-13: 9780595452668 Publisher: iUniverse OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2007 Annotation: 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." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Language Experience Approach - Education | Administration - General |
| Dewey: 371 |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6" W x 9" (0.81 lbs) 248 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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". |