Compendium (noun)
kom-pen-dee-um
A collection of concise but detailed information about a particular subject, especially in a book or other publication.
Late 16th century from Latin, ‘profit, saving’ (literally ‘what is weighed together’), from compendere, from com- ‘together’ + pendere ‘weigh’.
Example sentences
“She’d collected a compendium of information.”
Medley (noun) med-lee a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble. First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English noun and adjective medle(e), medlei(e), maedlai(e) “battle, war, quarrel; mixture, balanced mixture,” from…
