“Linking Verb: A verb that joins the subject of a sentence to its complement. Professor Chapman is a philosophy teacher. They were ecstatic.”
Excerpted from: Strunk, William Jr., and E.B. White. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition. New York: Longman, 2000.
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“Dyslexia: An impairment in the ability to read, not resulting from low intelligence. It was first described in 1877 by the German physician Adolf Kussmaul (1822-1902), who coined the term word blindness to refer to it. See also acquired dyslexia, alexia, attentional dyslexia, catalexia, central dyslexias, cognitive neuropsychology, deep dyslexia, developmental dyslexia, neglect dyslexia, phonological dyslexia, spelling dyslexia, surface dyslexia, visual word-form dyslexia. Also called alexia, hypolexia, and word blindness. See also reading disorder, strephosymbolia. Compare hyperlexia. Dyslexic adj.”
Excerpted from: Colman, Andrew M., ed. Oxford Dictionary of Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
“Approach. ‘The juror was approached’; that is, overtures were made to him with a view to bribing him. As there is not other single word for it, approach is made to serve, figuratively; and being graphic, it is not altogether objectionable.”
Excerpted from: Bierce, Ambrose. Write it Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2010.
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“But, because we dared to challenge the Southern tradition of segregation, this school became, instead, a furnace that consumed our youth and forged us into reluctant warriors.”
Melba Patillo Beals, on the Desegregation of Little Rock Schools, Warriors Don’t Cry(1994)
Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003
“Intransitive Verb: A verb that does not take a direct object. His nerve failed.”
Excerpted from: Strunk, William Jr., and E.B. White. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition. New York: Longman, 2000.
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“Lusterware: A Middle Eastern luxury item brought to Spain in the late 10th century. Muslim artisans produced iridescent ceramic glazes that appeared as metallic silver, copper, or gold. In the 15th century lusterware tiles and dinnerware were commissioned throughout Europe by princes, cardinals, and popes. Decorative elements included their heraldic emblems along with Moorish signs and symbols.”
Excerpted from: Diamond, David G. The Bulfinch Pocket Dictionary of Art Terms. Boston: Little Brown, 1992.
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
Proper Studies “A Note on Dogma” (1927)
Excerpted from: Schapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
“Syllogism: (Greek “reckoning together”) Deduction, from two propositions containing three terms of which one appears in both, of a conclusion that is true if they are true. A stock example is: All men are mortal; Greeks are mortal; so all Greeks are mortal. ‘Men’ is the middle term. ‘Mortal,’ the second term in the conclusion, is the major term and the premise in which it occurs is the major premise. ‘Greeks’ is the minor term and its premise the minor premise.”
Excerpted from: Cuddon, J.A. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. New York: Penguin, 1992.
“What is the oldest existing publisher? It is Cambridge University Press, which was established in 1584.”
Excerpted from: Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa. Literature: The New York Public Library Book of Answers. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.
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“Anaphora: The relation between a pronoun and another unit, in the same or in an earlier sentence, that supplies its referent. E.g. in Mary disguised herself, the reflexive herself is an anaphoric pronoun, related to an antecedent Mary: the person, that is, who is said to be disguised is the person that Mary has already referred to. Likewise, e.g. in conversation, across sentences boundaries. Thus if A asks ‘Where’s Mary’ and be says ‘She’s in the garden,’ she in the sentence B utters is to be understood as anaphoric to earlier Mary.
Thence of similar relations involving units other than pronouns: e.g. the idiot is anaphoric to John in I asked John but the idiot wouldn’t tell me; do so is anaphoric to help in I wanted to help but I couldn’t do so. Also, in a looser sense, of any relation in which something is understood in the light of what precedes it. E.g. in Her house is larger than mine, a meaning of mine, as ‘my house,’ would be supplied in part by her house.
…An anaphoric chain is formed by two or more successive unit, each linked anaphorically to the one preceding.”
Excerpted from: Matthews, P.H., ed. The Oxford Concise Dictionary of Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
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