A Reader's Companion: 3,500 Words and Phrases Avid Readers Should Know

by John L. Bowman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595452663
• ISBN13: 9780595452668
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"