100 Exquisite Adjectives By Mark Nichol Adjectives — descriptive words that modify nouns — often come under fire for their cluttering quality, but often it’s quality, not quantity, that is the issue. Plenty of tired adjectives are available to spoil a good sentence, but when you find just the right word for the job, enrichment ensues. Practice precision when you select words. Here’s a list of adjectives: Subscribe to Receive our Articles and Exercises via Email You will improve your English in only 5 minutes per day, guaranteed! 21 Responses to “100 Exquisite Adjectives” Rebecca Fantastic list!
Good Reading: A Guide for Serious Readers Good Reading began as a list of college reading. It has since been much expanded to include significant works in literature, history, regional studies, humanities, social sciences, and science. At the front are four checklists of "101 Significant Books," "A Short List of Books to Read on Vacation," "A Short List of Books to Read Before Entering College," and "A Short List of Books to Read After Retirement." Frequently Asked Questions Who wrote this list? See the heading above and the credit below to find out who wrote this list. Why isn't my favorite author listed here? This list may not include your favorite author, but he or she may be on other Great Books lists. See the Great Books FAQ for more about the Great Books and these lists of them. This page: 101 Significant Books | A Short List of Books to Read on Vacation | A Short List of Books to Read before Entering College | A Short List of Books to Read after Retirement 101 Significant Books Ancient Times Middle Ages and Renaissance 1. Drama:
A List of Books | 623 of the Best Books Ever Written Borges' Book Selections: The Library of Babel and A Personal Library The Argentinian fiction writer, essayist, and librarian Jorge Luis Borges selected the following titles for two series, "The Library of Babel" and "A Personal Library." Who wrote this list? See the heading above and the credit below to find out who wrote this list. Why isn't my favorite author listed here? This list may not include your favorite author, but he or she may be on other Great Books lists. See the Great Books FAQ for more about the Great Books and these lists of them. The Library of Babel Jack London, The Concentric Deaths Jorge Luis Borges, August 25 1983 Gustav Meyrink, Cardinal Napellus Léon Bloy, Discourteous Tales Giovanni Papini, The Escaping Mirror Oscar Wilde, The Crime of Lord Arthur Savile Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, The Guest at the Last Banquet Pedro de Alarcón, The Friend of Death Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener William Beckford, Vathek H. A Personal Library Julio Cortázar, Stories & 3. The content of this page may belong to the author.
The FBI maintains an 83-page glossary of Internet slang. And it is hilariously, frighteningly out of touch. The FBI headquarters IRL. That’s “in real life,” to you. (Jeffrey MacMillan/Capital Business) The Internet is full of strange and bewildering neologisms, which anyone but a text-addled teen would struggle to understand. An 83-page glossary. The glossary was recently made public through a Freedom of Information request by the group MuckRock, which posted the PDF, called “Twitter shorthand,” online. All of these minor gaffes could be forgiven, however, if the glossary itself was actually good. ALOTBSOL has, for the record, been tweeted fewer than 500 times in the entire eight-year history of Twitter. Among the other head-scratching terms the FBI considers can’t-miss Internet slang: AYFKMWTS (“are you f—— kidding me with this s—?”) One would hope the people tasked with investigating federal crimes could decipher that kind of thing through context clues … but the Internet is a vast, dizzying place! Caitlin Dewey runs The Intersect blog, writing about digital and Internet culture.
Great Books Lists: Lists of Classics, Eastern and Western As seen in A Guide to Oriental Classics, Whole Earth magazine, Winter 2002. (A revised version of the article is available at author Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools site.) This page: Introduction | Western Canon | Eastern and World Canons | Contemporary Canon | Other Lists of Great Books | My Reading Lists | Indexes to these Great Books Lists Introduction Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) What are the Great Books? Western Canon Eastern and World Canons Approaches to the Asian Classics. Contemporary Canon Other Lists of Great Books Other Lists of Great Books - An annotated bibliography of some other sources of Great Books lists, both in books and on the Web My Reading Lists My Reading Lists (Ancient Near East, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, China, Middle Ages) Indexes to these Great Books Lists
15 Rare And Beautiful Words You've Never Heard Before There are 6,500 languages spoken actively today, but even that pales in comparison to the 94,000 languages that have existed through the ages. Many have died off, many are still spoken, and they’ve all created words that define really incredible things that the English language just doesn’t. Enjoy. Psychopomp. A guider of souls. Mythopoeic. Pertaining to the making of myths, or giving rise to myths. Hierosgamos. A holy marriage between a god and a goddess. Sipapu. A small tunnel or inter-dimensional passage. Oneiromancy. Divination or predicting the future through dreams. Yonic. A stylized representation of the female genitalia. In Hinduism, it is a sign of regenerative power and symbolizes the goddess Shakti. Hiraeth. A welsh word meaning homesickness for a place that never existed. Paracosm. A highly detailed world created inside someone’s mind. Petrichor. The small of the earth after it rains. Ataraxia. A state of robust tranquility from eschewing faith in an afterlife. Sambhogakaya. Chthonic. Palimpsest.
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