BOOKS

Question 1

a book that is part of a series of books

Answer 1

volume

Question 2

a new book that has sold a great number of copies

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best-seller

Question 3

the original copy of a book or article before it is printed

Answer 3

manuscript

Question 4

a book, magazine, newspaper, or document in which information or stories are published

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a publication

Question 5

a book, play, or film that has an exciting story, often about solving a crime

Answer 5

a thriller

Question 6

a printed copy of something that is examined and corrected before the final copies are printed

Answer 6

proofs (bozze)

Question 7

a story about a crime and the attempt to discover who committed it

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whodunnit

Question 8

a single book, newspaper, record, or other printed or recorded text of which many have been produced

Answer 8

a copy

Question 9

a book with a cover made of thick paper

Answer 9

a paperback (tascabile)

Question 10

a book that has a stiff cover

Answer 10

hardback edition (con copertina rigida)

Question 11

to read or consider something quickly in order to understand the main points, without studying it in detail

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to skim (leggere per sommi capi)

Question 12

to avoid sth

Answer 12

to skip

Question 13

to look quickly at the pages of a magazine, book, etc

Answer 13

to flip through sth (sfogliare)

Question 14

to try to find a piece of information by looking in a book or on a computer

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to look sth up

Question 15

to read small parts of a book or magazine

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to dip into sth (dare una letta)

Question 16

to look at, or tell someone else to look at, a book or similar record in order to find information and help

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to refer (sb) to sth. (consultare)

Question 17

to look through a book or magazine without reading everything

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to browse

Question 18

to spend a lot of time and effort doing something boring or difficult, especially reading a lot of information

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to wade through sth (sciropparsi)

Question 19

to read through something, especially in order to find the part you are interested in

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to peruse

Question 20

read all the way through from the beginning to the end

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to read from cover to cover

Question 21

a short text at the beginning or end of a book where the writer names people or other works that have helped in writing the book

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acknowledgements

Question 22

a separate part at the end of a book or magazine that gives extra information

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appendix

Question 23

a list of the books and articles that have been used by someone when writing a particular book or article

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bibliography

Question 24

a short description of a book, film, etc., written by the people who have produced it, and intended to make people want to buy it or see it

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blurb (testo della quarta di copertina)

Question 25

the articles or parts contained in a magazine or book, with the number of the page they begin on

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contents (INDICE)

Question 26

a statement that says in whose honour something has been written

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dedication

Question 27

a list of the answers to the questions in an exercise or test

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a key

Question 28

a note printed at the bottom of a page that gives extra information about something that has been written on that page

Answer 28

footnotes

Question 29

the picture that faces the page of a book with the title on

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frontispiece

Question 30

an alphabetical list, with meanings, of the words or phrases in a text that are difficult to understand

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glossary

Question 31

the order in which a series of events happened, or a list or explanation of these events in the order in which they happened

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chronology

Question 32

an alphabetical list, such as one printed at the back of a book showing which page a subject, name, etc. is on

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index

Question 33

a long printed story about imaginary characters and events

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a novel

Question 34

a type of thin book with large pages and a paper cover that contains articles and photographs and is published every week or month

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a magazine

Question 35

a book that contains a list of words in alphabetical order and explains their meanings

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a dictionary

Question 36

a book or set of books containing many articles arranged in alphabetical order that deal either with the whole of human knowledge or with a particular part of it, or a similar set of articles on the internet:

Answer 36

encyclopaedia

Question 37

a book containing maps

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atlas

Question 38

a book that gives information for visitors about a place, such as a city or country

Answer 38

a guidebook