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Vocabulary Building Blocks: (36 Down) ad hoc (ADJECTIVE) 1. For or concerned with one specific purpose. Similar: specific. 2. Often improvised or impromptu. Similar: unplanned. As in: "an ad hoc gathering". (ADVERB) 1. For one specific case. As in: "The committee was appointed ad hoc". Derived from Latin,
ad hoc is a Latin phrase meaning "For this purpose".
Did You Know? (68 Across) C. S. Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1898. Educated at the University of Oxford, he went on to teach there as professor of Medieval and Renaissance English literature. He is best
remembered today, not for the scholarly works he wrote but for a series of
children's books, The Chronicles of Narnia, which began publication in
1950 with the first volume: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The
series of seven volumes have been adapted to the cinema, radio, stage, and
television in various forms over the years. In 2005 Walt Disney Pictures and
Walden Media released a new version of a film adaptation of The Lion, the
Witch and the Wardrobe, following in May 2008 with Prince Caspian,
based on the second volume of The Chronicles. The third installment in the Walt
Disney film adaptation, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, is scheduled
for release in 2010. The remaining volumes in The Chronicles are The Silver
Chair; The Horse and His Boy; The Magician's Nephew; and
The Last Battle. Release of the film version of The Lion, the Witch
and the Wardrobe in 2005 sparked a surge of book sales of The Chronicles,
which had already sold over 100 million copies.
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