A Readers Companion II offers a look at 3, 500 uncommon words for avid readers. The Readers Companion series contains thousands of words and their definitions, helping to expand vocabulary, improve comprehension and increase reading speed. This is the second book in the series, and it includes literary, Latin, historic and philosophic words and phrases that advanced readers will commonly encounter. Some examples include:
Nouns including abulia, bellibone, distaff, dragoman, eschatology, flapper, quidnunc and schandenfreude
Literary adjectives such as chiliastic, scabrous, concomitant, eupeptic, purblind and noetic
Ancient words like anent and Boeotian
Philosophic concepts like counterfactual, the either/or fallacy and epiphenomenalism
Latin phrases like a fortiori, credo quia absurdum est, dum vivimus vivamus and ignis fatuus
Root words and derivatives including scrutable/inscrutable, eliminable/ineliminable and reck/reckless
Interesting people like Condillac
Word comparisons such as agnate and enate; cuckquean and cuckold; ethos, kakos and deilos; and exiguous, exegesis and exegete
Historic phrases like Acorn Eater and Lotus Eater
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The author lives in Portland, Oregon, where he raised three daughters with his wife, Kathy. He has been a commercial real estate broker for forty years in Portland, where he owns a commercial real estate company. He is the author of numerous books on philosophy, real estate, politics, sports, words, Stoicism and humor. The author received a Bachelor of Arts in 1973 from Whitman College, a Bachelor of Arts in 1993 from Portland State University in philosophy and a Master of Interdisciplinary Studies degree in philosophy and history from Oregon State University in 2010. He is an avid lifelong reader of books, from which many of these words are derived.
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