TESTfunda Daily Wordlist 06-Sep-13
If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web. 06-Sep-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists compendium [ kuh'm-PEN-dee-uh'm ] [ noun ] MEANING : 1. a concise account of a subject 2. a brief treatise or a summary 3. a complete list USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : The history teacher gave the students a compendium on Maratha history. USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : The Savage Detectives, Bolaño's most celebrated novel about a doomed quest to find an avant-garde poet in the deserts of northern Mexico, is an almost exhaustive compendium of Mexican writers from the 1970s, some shrouded in pseudonyms and some subjected to open hostility. The Telegraph, Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolaño: review, Ed King, 1...