WORD OF THE DAY
When you search an online encyclopedia, you are searching a compendium of information on just about everything. A compendium is a comprehensive collection of something.
You can also use the word compendium to describe a collection of written works. If you gather all of the anecdotes your parents and grandparents have told you into a book, you'll have created a compendium of family stories. The plural of compendium is either compendiums or compendia.
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Vocabulary lists containing compendium
Percy Jackson's normal life is turned upside down when gods from Greek mythology accuse him of stealing a supernatural weapon. Percy must find the real thief — and figure out his connection to the gods.
This memoir recounts Noah's childhood in South Africa during the last years of apartheid.
In this adaptation of Born a Crime for young readers, Trevor Noah recounts his childhood in apartheid-era South Africa.
Set in the Harry Potter universe, this book purports to be an encyclopedia of magical creatures written by the wizard Newt Scamander.
In medieval England, an orphaned girl named Brat becomes an apprentice to Jane Sharp, the local midwife.
