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A Reader's Companion

A Reader's Companion

A Reader's Companion

John L. Bowman

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iUniverse
Año de edición:
2007
Materia
Organización y gestión educativa
ISBN:
9780595452668
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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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