Vocabulary
epub |eng | | Author:Caroline Taggart

Body language You’re probably familiar with flatulence or flatus as more elegant terms for another word beginning with f and meaning breaking wind. We can disguise the body’s other embarrassing ...
( Category: Vocabulary March 15,2020 )
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 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-03 | Author:Richard A. LaFleur

( Category: Vocabulary March 4,2020 )
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 ...
( Category: Word Lists June 8,2017 )
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 ...
( Category: 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. ...
( Category: 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 ...
( Category: Vocabulary November 29,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Elster, Charles Harrington

Word 50: SPLENETIC (spluh-NET-ik) Irritable, ill-tempered; spiteful and morose; given to angry and impatient fits. You can imagine how many synonyms there are for a word that means irritable or ...
( Category: Vocabulary March 4,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-31 | Author:Crystal, David

Central, middle; coming between the eldest and youngest in age. From Cumberland: ‘Is that t’auldest lad er youngest?’ ‘It’s nowder, it’s middlemer’. mim (adjective) Berkshire, Cornwall, Durham, Ireland, Norfolk, Northumberland, ...
( Category: Vocabulary March 1,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Laurie E. Rozakis

You can also use homophones to create puns. The key to creating puns is as follows: If you’re writing a pun, you want the words to be spelled alike; if ...
( Category: Vocabulary December 26,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-13 | Author:Rimaletta Ray [Ray, Rimaletta]

74. To obtain conversational ease, establish a precise mental and emotional control over your English. 75. Manage yourself mentally and emotionally, and the language will become better managed in you. ...
( Category: Vocabulary December 21,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-12-08 | Author:

fraud [frɔːd] the crime of getting money by not telling the truth gang [gæŋ] an organized group of criminals gun [gʌn] a weapon that shoots bullets homicide (mainly American English) ...
( Category: Vocabulary November 27,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert W. Bly

M “The man who is in the MELEE knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn.” Woodrow Wilson, American president macarism (mAA-ka-rih-zum), noun The practice of ...
( Category: Vocabulary November 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2001-08-07 | Author:Adam Robinson & Princeton Review [Robinson, Adam & Review, Princeton]

( Category: Vocabulary June 12,2015 )
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 June 11,2015 )