miércoles, 12 de noviembre de 2008

Reading challenge 3 THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE

PUBLISH OR PERISH

TREASURE:
• cash, fortune, funds, gold, jewels, money, riches, valuables, wealth
• apple of one's eye, best thing since sliced bread darling, gem, greatest thing since sliced bread jewel, nonpareil, paragon, pearl, precious, pride and joy, prize.
• adore, cherish, dote upon, esteem, hold dear, idolize, love, prize, revere, value, venerate, worship.
• accumulate, cache, collect, garner, hoard, husband, lay up, salt away, save, stash (away) store up.

SEIZED:
• catch up, clutch, collar fasten, grab, grasp, grip, lay hands on, snatch, take.
• apprehend, catch, get, grasp, nab nail.
• abduct, annex, appropriate, arrest, capture, commandeer, confiscate, hijack, impound, take by storm, take captive, take possession of

TRUMPET:
• advertise, announce, broadcast, crack up extol, noise abroad, proclaim, publish, shout from the rooftops, sound loudly, tout.
• bugle, clarion, horn
• bay, bellow, call, cry, roar

SCHOLAR:
• academic, bluestocking bookworm, egghead intellectual, man of letters, savant
• disciple, learner, pupil, schoolboy, schoolgirl, student

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