A Reader's Companion

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".