Match the Phrase
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What Does It Mean?
A Latin or Greek word in the phrase it comes from, and four meanings. Easy mode shows the English with the word left out.
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Close or Free?
One passage and three English versions: word for word, a century old, and plain English today. Which is which?
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False Friends
Latin and Greek words that look like English ones, in real sentences. Does each mean what it looks like?
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Literature
Greenhouses in Orbit
Tsiolkovsky, Written January–April 1917; printed in part in Priroda i liudi, 1918, and in full at Kaluga, 1920, Kaluga
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Annals
A year in a sentence: entries from the Chronicle
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, entries for 802–1154; the Peterborough copy written about 1121–1155, Peterborough
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The Dream: a journey to the Moon
Johannes Kepler, Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634, Frankfurt
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