Vocabulary, Slang & Word Lists
epub |eng | 2009-04-18 | Author:Robert W. Bly [Bly, Robert W.]
“Arrogance on the part of the MERITORIOUS is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, nineteenth-century German ...
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Word Lists
October 25,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Isabel L. Beck [Beck Isabel L., McKeown Margaret G., Kucan Linda]
• If something is usual, does it happen a lot? • Does drenched mean very hungry? Another issue to be aware of is that with yes/no items there is a ...
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Language Arts
August 29,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-14 | Author:Chris Baldick
in-yer-face theatre A term coined by Aleks Sierz in his book In-Yer-Face Theatre: British Drama Today (2001), to refer to a new wave of British drama of the 1990s that ...
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Word Lists
July 29,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-07 | Author:Baldick, Chris;
in-yer-face theatre A term coined by Aleks Sierz in his book In-Yer-Face Theatre: British Drama Today (2001), to refer to a new wave of British drama of the 1990s that ...
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Word Lists
July 29,2019 )
epub |eng | 2002-09-30 | Author:Anu Garg [Garg, Anu]
pervious (PUR-vee-uhs) adjective 1. Permeable; open to passage or penetration. 2. Open to suggestions, arguments, reason, change, and so forth. From Latin pervius, from per- (through) + via (way). • ...
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Word Lists
June 19,2019 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-19 | Author:Anu Garg & Garg, Suti [Garg, Suti]
pervious (PUR-vee-uhs) adjective 1. Permeable; open to passage or penetration. 2. Open to suggestions, arguments, reason, change, and so forth. From Latin pervius, from per- (through) + via (way). • ...
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Word Lists
June 19,2019 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Anu Garg
Not to spread too much negativity, here are a few words with positive meanings. Then again, you could use them in insults, too, as in telling someone, “You aren’t exactly ...
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Word Lists
June 18,2019 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-02-17 | Author:RACHEL MITCHELL [MITCHELL, RACHEL]
COLLOCATIONS/L Lose touch with [Verb + Noun] (to not see or hear from someone any longer/ to no longer see, hear or communicate with someone.) John and I were close ...
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Word Lists
April 24,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:Steven J. Matthiesen
LESSON 14 • ample • arduous • arid • avert • defy • diligent • enact • feign • fertile • freshly • function • fundamental • indiscriminate • pinpoint ...
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Word Lists
April 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-10-05 | Author:Boinod, Adam Jacot De [Boinod, Adam Jacot De]
azote de barrio (Spanish, Central America) a criminal who concentrates on a particular neighbourhood accordéon (French) an extensive criminal record A life of crime Italian offers a rich vocabulary for ...
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Word Lists
June 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-20 | Author:Rosalind Fergusson
D 15.1 dab 1.1 dabber 2.8 dabble 2.28 dabbler 2.12 dabbling 2.42 dabchick 2.21 dabs 1.2 dace 7.30 dacha 2.14 dachshund 2.36 dachshunds 2.37 dacoit 33.13 dacoits 33.14 dacoity 34.1 ...
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Word Lists
June 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-06 | Author:Betty Kirkpatrick
STYLE AND VOCABULARY There is, of course, more to good written English than a knowledge of correct grammar and correct usage. Style is also an important issue. Style with regard ...
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Vocabulary
April 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-12 | Author:Ross Petras
liable [LYE-uh-buhl] legally responsible; likely to do or be something, usually in an undesirable sense Liable is another word liable (we couldn’t resist) to be mispronounced merely because we’re lazy. ...
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Vocabulary
March 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-28 | Author:Yee-Lum Mak
KINTSUKUROI (noun, Japanese) lit. “to repair with gold”; the art of repairing pottery with gold or silver lacquer and understanding that the piece is more beautiful for having been broken ...
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Vocabulary
November 29,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-06 | Author:Tiffany Watt Smith
JEALOUSY You have to trust. That’s what you tell yourself. When you see the e-mail hurriedly closed down and a bright smile—is it too bright?—on the face. Or the door ...
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Word Lists
August 1,2016 )
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