Needs no Appendices so to set forth A Jewel of a more admired worth. Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!
Log in Sign Up. It's a Trick Question Amaze your friends! Impress your employers!! Thwart your enemies!!! Referendums are my favorite way to spend a Friday night. Definition : a public vote on a particular issue Latin has given English a sizable portion of its vocabulary, and one of the reasons that so many of our words are descended from that language is that they have entered our tongue at a number of distinct points.
The face of someone who forgot to read all the syllabi. Photo: fizkes. Definition : a summary outline of a discourse, treatise, or course of study or of examination requirements Syllabus comes to English from the Latin sillybus , which actually has nothing to do with buses or silliness sillybus refers to a label for a book.
Gymnasiums, places of adolescent horror whichever way you spell it Photo: monkeybusinessimages. Definition : a large room used for various indoor sports such as basketball or boxing and usually equipped with gymnastic apparatus Very few people use gymnasia as the plural of gymnasium anymore, but it can come in handy if you want to confuse people.
Close your mouth, some miasmas are heading your way. Photo: Kurhan. Definition : a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease Most words have a single plural form, while others feel the need to have two. No one likes waiting in terminuses, no matter how ornate they are.
Photo: TomasSereda. Definition : either end of a transportation line or travel route Given that the above two words are obscure variant plurals of a somewhat obscure singular form terminus , it is quite unlikely that you will have need of distinguishing between them. The syllabus hints that discussions will touch on marketing, religion, gay culture, sex, and gender. Here are ten books that belong on any syllabus of self-transformation. If there is a theme that runs through Hagel's syllabus choices, it's a pretty realpolitik one.
Some of us has botanised, and some's collected butterflies, and one and all we've read the books set down for us in the Syllabus. This syllabus harmonises with the development of all the faculties. He is subject, but only in an extremely liberal fashion, to a programme or syllabus of studies.
Much, however, depends upon the personal effort of the student, and the syllabus is intended to direct his private study. See the full definition for syllabus in the English Language Learners Dictionary. Nglish: Translation of syllabus for Spanish Speakers.
Britannica English: Translation of syllabus for Arabic Speakers. Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free! Log in Sign Up. Save Word. Definition of syllabus. Alex Jung, Vulture , 12 Oct. First Known Use of syllabus circa , in the meaning defined at sense 1. Each entry starts with a simple explanation and some basic examples before giving real-life, entertaining examples. Every entry ends with a summary explaining why the grammar point matters to a writer.
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