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Veröffentlichung:	Juli 2014
Genre:	Ratgeber
ISBN:	9781496923073
EAN-Code:	9781496923073
Verlag:	Authorhouse
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 229 mm / B 152 mm / D 13 mm
Gewicht:	349 gr
Seiten:	210
Zus. Info:	Paperback
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Inhalt:

A Reader's Companion II offers a look at 3,500 uncommon words for avid readers. The Reader's Companion series contains thousands of words and their definitions, helping to expand vocabulary, improve comprehension and increase reading speed. This is the second book in the series, and it includes literary, Latin, historic and philosophic words and phrases that advanced readers will commonly encounter. Some examples include: ¿ Nouns including abulia, bellibone, distaff, dragoman, eschatology, flapper, quidnunc and schandenfreude ¿ Literary adjectives such as chiliastic, scabrous, concomitant, eupeptic, purblind and noetic ¿ Ancient words like anent and Boeotian ¿ Philosophic concepts like counterfactual, the either/or fallacy and epiphenomenalism ¿ Latin phrases like a fortiori, credo quia absurdum est, dum vivimus vivamus and ignis fatuus ¿ Root words and derivatives including scrutable/inscrutable, eliminable/ineliminable and reck/reckless ¿ Interesting people like Condillac ¿ Word comparisons such as agnate and enate; cuckquean and cuckold; ethos, kakos and deilos; and exiguous, exegesis and exegete ¿ Historic phrases like Acorn Eater and Lotus Eater