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   bookish

   /ˈbʊkɪʃ/

   adjective

   • 1. (of a person or way of life) devoted to reading and studying: "a bookish, untidy boy"
   • ▪ (of language or writing) literary in style or allusion: "his Welsh was rather bookish"

   Derivatives

   • 1. bookishly adverb
   • 2. bookishness noun

   Scrabble Points: 16

   • B

     3

   • O

     1

   • O

     1

   • K

     5

   • I

     1

   • S

     1

   • H

     4

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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Russian_literatureRussian literature - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Russian_literature

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   1 day ago · t. e. Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia, its émigrés, and to Russian-language literature. [1] Major contributors to Russian literature, as well as English for instance, are authors of different ethnic origins, including bilingual writers, such as Kyrgyz novelist Chinghiz Aitmatov. [1] At the same time, Russian-language ...

3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Pope_Pius_XIPope Pius XI - Wikipedia

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   1 day ago · Pius XI is remembered as the pope who reigned between the two great wars of the 20th century. The onetime librarian also reorganized the Vatican archives. Nevertheless, Pius XI was hardly a withdrawn and bookish figure. He was also a well-known mountain climber with many peaks in the Alps named after him, he having been the first to scale them.