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Back - New Search keratoacanthoma n. a firm nodule that appears singly on the skin, grows to 1–2 cm across in about six weeks, and usually disappears gradually during the ...
( Category: Gardening & Landscape Design March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:Steven Pinker

BENEATH THE METAPHOR If learning and using a metaphor requires us to manipulate ideas in a deeper stratum of thought, do we have any idea what these ideas are? One ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-26 | Author:Crystal, David [Crystal, David]

48 Lakh A Word from India (17th century) Here are two recent newspaper headlines from India. Nearly 5 lakh foreigners throng India for cheap treatment Rs 50-lakh divorce for runaway ...
( Category: Etymology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Agatha Christie

CHAPTER XVI. FURTHER ADVENTURES OF TOMMY FROM a darkness punctuated with throbbing stabs of fire, Tommy dragged his senses slowly back to life. When he at last opened his eyes, ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-02-27 | Author:Adam Jacot De Boinod

A life of crime Italian offers a rich vocabulary for different types of crime and criminal. Smonta, for example, is a theft carried out on a bus or train from ...
( Category: Word Lists March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1992-09-01 | Author:Sinclair Lewis

CHAPTER XIX I IN three years of exile from herself Carol had certain experiences chronicled as important by the Dauntless, or discussed by the Jolly Seventeen, but the event unchronicled, ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-11-15 | Author:Bill Bryson

12 Democratizing Luxury: Shopping in America In 1846 an Irish immigrant in New York named Alexander Stewart opened a business on Broadway called the Marble Dry-Goods Palace and in so ...
( Category: Linguistics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Michelle Dresbold & James Kwalwasser

When he finished chitchatting with his victim, he stuffed the corpse in the crawl space under the floorboards in his living room. A week later, he pulled the body out ...
( Category: Graphology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-08-16 | Author:Roy Peter Clark

30 Identify all sources of ambiguity and confusion. Poet and scholar William Empson was only twenty-four years old in 1930 when his book Seven Types of Ambiguity was published, which ...
( Category: Grammar March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Stanley Fish

(1925) Is this a sentence? It doesn’t have a beginning, middle, or end, and as you read it you can’t chart its progress toward a designed close. Who says “she ...
( Category: General Books & Reading March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Lynne Truss

The big final rule for the comma is one that you won’t find in any books by grammarians. It is quite easy to remember, however. The rule is: don’t use ...
( Category: Vocabulary March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-08-28 | Author:Justin Cord Hayes

grin ORIGINAL DEFINITION: showing the teeth due to pain or anger NEW DEFINITION: show the teeth in a smile Sometimes it can be painful to hold a grin for too ...
( Category: Word Lists March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-29 | Author:Mark Forsyth

Flying Peters Piers Plowman is a variant of Peter Plowman because the farmer in the poem was representative of the ideal disciple of Christ, the chief of the apostles and ...
( Category: Etymology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-10-30 | Author:John McWhorter

And somme understonde wel Englysch that can nother Latyn nor Frankys. Bothe lered and lewed, olde and gonge, Alle understonden english tonge. Lewed, by the way, meant “unlearned”—neat how the ...
( Category: Etymology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-27 | Author:John Marciano

pan·der v. To cynically cater to another’s interests. The character from whom this term originates has a long and varied history on the margins of great literature. In Homer’s Iliad, ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 25,2014 )