Senior texting codes (STC) (Suggested, Unorthodox, and Un-attributed)Īlphabetical Listing Of Foreign Headwords & Phrases With Their Definition, Etymology, & CategorizationĬategorical List of Headwords & Phrases With Page Number DEDICATION Library of Congress Control Number: 2013916549Īlphabetical Listing of Headwords & Phrases With Their Definition, Etymology, & Categorization
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Here are just a few of the interesting words youll learn:Ĭenotaph: a monument erected as a memorial to a dead person or dead people buried elsewhere, especially those killed fighting a war
All of them apply to the aged, a group that makes up an increasing portion of the populationparticularly in the United States, Europe, and Japan. Most of these words are unusual, rare, obsolete, archaic, wonderful, marvelous, arcane, and even preposterous. There are many words relating to old age, aging, and the elderly, and this compendium of words seeks to help you understand almost two thousand of them.
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