- Anglický jazyk
A Reader's Companion
Autor: John L. Bowman
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,...
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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".
- Vydavateľstvo: iUniverse
- Rok vydania: 2007
- Formát: Paperback
- Rozmer: 229 x 152 mm
- Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
- ISBN: 9780595452668