John's Dictionary of Difficult Words (Vancouver, Richmond and Burnaby English Tutor)

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SHAKESPEARE: 1. Romeo and Juliet 2. Macbeth 3. Hamlet 4. Othello 5. King Lear 6. The Taming of the Shrew 7. Tempest 8....

adjective shaped like an X • Botany (of leaves) arranged in opposite pairs, each pair being at right angles to the pair below

noun formal or technical imitation, in particular • representation or imitation of the real world in art and literature • the deliberate im...

noun arrogant or boastful talk

noun informal the terse, abbreviated style of language used in telegrams

noun a young salmon (or trout) after the parr stage, when it becomes silvery and migrates to the sea for the first time

noun ( pl. epigones or epigoni ) a less distinguished follower or imitator of someone, esp. an artist or philosopher

adjective chiefly historical (of an herb or drug) standardly used in medicine

noun change in one's way of life resulting from penitence or spiritual conversion

noun Brit. Law an accusation; a charge • chiefly poetic/literary a complaint; a lamentation

noun a T-shaped piece of metal or wood, esp. on a boat or ship, to which ropes are attached • one of a number of projecting pieces of metal,...

noun poetic/literary an inhabitant of the extreme north • ( Hyperborean ) Greek Mythology a member of a race worshiping Apollo and living in...

noun a wild choral hymn of ancient Greece, esp. one dedicated to Dionysus • a passionate or inflated speech, poem, or other writing

noun the insulting of a monarch or other ruler; treason

adjective [ postpositive] Heraldry (of a fish or marine creature) swimming horizontally

noun 1. Biology the exact reproduction of ancestral characteristics in ontogenesis 2. rebirth or regeneration