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 ...
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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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