epub |eng | 2001-08-07 | Author:Adam Robinson & Princeton Review [Robinson, Adam & Review, Princeton]

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 ...

mobi |eng | 2010-10-31 | Author:Stirling, Bruce [Stirling, Bruce]

a. to frustrate b. to organize c. to conclude d. to coalesce 9. conviction (n) a. strong conflict b. strong contract c. strong fear d. strong belief 10. cynic (adj) ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Fogarty, Mignon [Fogarty, Mignon]

The ballet [Manon Lescaut ] is a superb showcase for its two leads, but also shows the acting skills of the entire company as a whole in its evocation of ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-07-02 | Author:Mignon Fogarty [Fogarty, Mignon]

Have got has been used in English for centuries and is considered fully standard by most modern usage guides. What Should You Do? Use have got to without fear when ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-05 | Author:Fogarty, Mignon [Fogarty, Mignon]

QUICK AND DIRTY TIP Remember the spelling by thinking that the heroine in your favorite novel has that extra something about her, that extra pizzazz that makes everyone love her—and ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2014-03-18 | Author:Lewis, Norman [Lewis, Norman]

4. at large We discovered magnus, large, big, great, in Chapter 9, in discussing Magnavox (etymologically, “big voice”), and find it again in magniloquent (etymologically, “talking big”). The root occurs ...

epub |eng | 2014-12-08 | Author:Princeton Review [Review, The Princeton]

Idiom List #1 These idioms always take the same preposition–no matter what. With afflicted with: I am afflicted with measles and dandruff. argue with: Shut up and don’t argue with ...

mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-11-03 | Author:Harrison, Mim [Harrison, Mim]

Spot the zeugma in this sentence: “They watched the clock and the world go by.” 8 Picture This Descriptions that sing, dance, and act up a little Adjectives sometimes get ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2007-10-30 | Author:Anu Garg [Garg, Anu]

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 ...

mobi |eng | 2006-09-14 | Author:McKean, Erin [McKean, Erin]

The study of slugs is limacology. (The lima bean is not related, being named for the capital of Peru.) The study of cooking is magirology. The study of entrails is ...

epub |eng | 2014-09-30 | Author:John Wright

Equisetum palustre brevioribus foliis polyspermon Chapter VI The History of Naming And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the ...

epub, mobi | | 2014-02-28 | Author:Maggie Scott

Slack − this is thought to be derived from Old Norse slakki, ‘a hollow between hills’, but some meanings of the word may show influence from Scots slock and its ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2008-03-12 | Author:Chris Robinson & Eileen Finlayson [Robinson, Chris]

Flan − gust of wind, especially one blowing smoke down a chimney, back draught; squall. As the following quotations show, flans are not good for housewives, sailors or gardeners. A ...

epub |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:Lynne Truss [Truss, Lynne]

Look at that sentence fly. Amazing. The way it stays up like that. Would anyone mind if I ate the last sandwich? Of course, nothing is straightforward in the world ...