A Reader's Companion II

A Reader'S Companion Ii Offers A Look At 3500 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