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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: 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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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Education Educational strategies & policy

• Full title: Reader's Companion
• Subtitle: 3,500 Words and Phrases Avid Readers Should Know
• Author: John L Bowman
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248
• EAN: 9780595452668
• ISBN: 9780595452668
• ID: 07368765
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Weight: 367 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. June 2007

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