This week's theme: words to describe the Earth's features. peneplain (PEE-nuh-playn, pee-nuh-PLAYN) noun
An area of nearly flat, featureless land formed by a long period of erosion. [From pene- (almost), from Latin paene + plain, from Latin planus.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=peneplain -Anu Garg (gargATwordsmith.org) "You are Xerxes in Persia. Your army spreads on a vast and arid peneplain." Annie Dillard; Pilgrim at Tinker Creek; Harper's Magazine Press; 1974. Sponsored by: Monthly French, German, Italian and Spanish cultural audio magazines for intermediate-to-advanced learners. http://web.champs-elysees.com/wsmith1 Powerful dictionary and grammar software from Ultralingua: English, Spanish, French, more! Free trial Win/Mac/Palm/PPC http://ultralingua.com?affiliate=ws ............................................................................ Literature is the language of society, as speech is the language of man. -Louis de Bonald, philosopher and politician (1754-1840) Looking for a word/quotation previously featured in AWAD? Archives are at http://wordsmith.org/awad/archives.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/peneplain.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/peneplain.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/peneplain.html This message was sent to "[email protected]".
