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McGraw-Hill Education Essential Vocabulary for the TOEFL® Test by Diane Engelhardt
epub |eng | 2018-11-25 | Author:Diane Engelhardt

( Category: Etymology March 13,2020 )
Uglier Than a Monkey's Armpit by Stephen Dodson Robert Vanderplank
epub |eng | 2018-12-24 | Author:Stephen Dodson, Robert Vanderplank

oinobares, kunos ommat’ ekhon, kradien d’elaphoio [oi-noh-bah-RESS, kew-nos OHM-mat eh-KHOHN, krah-dee-AYN deh-lah-FOY-oh] When Achilles gets fed up with Agamemnon’s insults, he really lets him have it:“You drunkard with a dog’s ...
( Category: Etymology March 13,2020 )
The Play of Words by Richard Lederer
epub |eng | 1990-07-15 | Author:Richard Lederer

29. the fleshy pad just below the thumb uvula 30. the hollow area at the back of the knee vomer (Answers on page 212) FEAR OF PHOBIAS Do you have ...
( Category: Puns & Wordplay March 12,2020 )
Write It Right by Ambrose Bierce
epub |eng | 2014-01-20 | Author:Ambrose Bierce

Ideas For Life www.thebignest.co.uk The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli ISBN: 9781909175938 Paper Back ISBN: 9781909175426 E-book The Prince is one of the first works of political philosophy, in which the ...
( Category: Vocabulary March 10,2020 )
Green-Eyed Monsters and Good Samaritans by Leonard Mann
epub |eng | 2008-09-06 | Author:Leonard Mann [Leonard Mann]

Sour Grapes May we sometimes have an attitude that may properly be called a sour grapes syndrome? Consider the fable of the fox and the grapes: The fox was a ...
( Category: Money & Monetary Policy March 8,2020 )
Wheelock's Latin by Richard A. LaFleur
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-03 | Author:Richard A. LaFleur

( Category: Vocabulary March 4,2020 )
100 Flowers and How They Got Their Names by Diana Wells
epub |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Diana Wells [Wells, Diana]

LOBELIA COMMON NAMES: Lobelia, cardinal flower. BOTANICAL NAME: Lobelia. FAMILY: Lobeliaceae. The blue lobelia we use most often in our gardens is Lobelia erinus, which was imported from South Africa ...
( Category: Flowers March 3,2020 )
Salty Dog Talk by Bill Beavis
epub |eng | 2013-07-26 | Author:Bill Beavis

Mate A friendly word meaning two who break bread together, or more precisely meat – two who share meat. From the old Teutonic word gamaton – ga implying a conjunction, ...
( Category: Boating March 2,2020 )
The Emoji Code by Vyvyan Evans
epub |eng | | Author:Vyvyan Evans [Evans, Vyvyan]

CHAPTER 5 Colourful Writing Predictive typing has long been a staple of smartphones, and even mobile phones back in the day before they were smart. It works by figuring out ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies February 28,2020 )
May We Borrow Your Language? by Philip Gooden
epub |eng | | Author:Philip Gooden [Gooden, Philip]

TERRIFIC ∼ (1667) ∽ JOHN MILTON ’S EPIC POEM Paradise Lost (1667) tells the story of the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, their own paradise ...
( Category: Etymology February 27,2020 )
Grammar in Use by Raymond Murphy
mobi |eng | 2015-11-01 | Author:Raymond Murphy

EXERCISES 88.1 Complete the sentences with both/neither/either. 1. 'Do you want tea or coffee?' '_Either._ of them I really don't mind.' 2. 'What day is it today--the I 8th or ...
( Category: Instruction February 20,2020 )
English Grammar Essentials For Dummies by Wendy M. Anderson & Geraldine Woods & Lesley J Ward
epub |eng | 2019-01-03 | Author:Wendy M. Anderson & Geraldine Woods & Lesley J Ward

Deciding When to Use Numerals Obviously, when you write addresses, phone numbers and dates, you’re going to use figures (or numerals). That’s pretty obvious. What’s not so obvious is choosing ...
( Category: Etymology January 27,2020 )
Scribblers, Sculptors and Scribes by Richard A LaFleur
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Richard A LaFleur [LaFleur, Richard A]

NSCRPTINS A Hero and…the Laundry Guys …]RMA VIRVMQVE CANO TROIA QVI PRIMVS AB ORIS [A]rma virumque can Tria<e> qu prmus ab rs. CIL 4.4832: Lines from poetry, especially Vergil, appear ...
( Category: Etymology November 20,2019 )
In Other Words by Christopher J. Moore
epub |eng | 2009-10-13 | Author:Christopher J. Moore

kalakukko [kul-u-kook-koh] (noun) This is a traditional Finnish food that has a mysterious and oddly untranslatable name. Although kalakukko literally means "fish rooster," it has nothing to do with poultry. ...
( Category: Anthologies October 14,2019 )
Semicolon by Cecelia Watson
epub |eng | 2019-06-07 | Author:Cecelia Watson

D. H. Lawrence, who helped dredge Melville back up from obscurity in the 1920s, wrote of Moby-Dick that “there is something really overwhelming in these whale-hunts, almost superhuman or inhuman, ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory September 5,2019 )

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