Averil Coxhead’s Academic Word List

• Academic Word List – Averil Coxhead – 9 pages
• (Averil Coxhead’s) High-Incidence Academic Word List (AWL) – 2 pages (source: Center for Research on the Educational Achievement and Teaching of English Language Learners)

Chimera and centaur

chimera and centaur at Wordnik

Chimera
A fire-breathing monster of Lycia, destroyed by Bellerophon (q.v.). According to Homer the Chimaera was of divine origin. In front it was a lion, behind it was a serpent, and in the middle a goat, and was brought up by King Amisodarus as a plague for men.
Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

Centaur
The Centaur’s are half man, and half horse. They have the body of a horse but, in place of the horse’s head the have the torso, head and arms of a man. Most are wild and savage, known for lustfulness and drunkenness. The exception is the wise Centaur Chiron.
Centaur

Latin terms we use in English writing

Common Latin Terms in Scientific Writing
– Compiled by Celia M. Elliott at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign