This week's theme: words borrowed from Spanish. mesa (MAY-suh) noun
A flat-top land formation with steep sides. A mesa is an area bigger than a butte but smaller than a plateau. [From Spanish mesa (table), from Latin mensa (table).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=mesa -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "Wetherill and Mason spent several hours on that December day exploring the site and collecting artifacts. They climbed to the top of the mesa and separated, searching for more cliff dwellings." Robin Chalmers; A Historic Rediscovery; Cobblestone (Peterborough, New Hampshire); Sep 1999. Sponsors' messages: Can one single thing really be responsible for all your problems? And is it in your power to change it? No, really! http://TheRealForbiddenFruit.com Subscribe to any of the French, German, Italian or Spanish Champs-Elysees Audio Magazines and get an extra issue free: http://web.champs-elysees.com/wsmith8 ............................................................................ How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten? -Logan Pearsall Smith, essayist (1865-1946) Our privacy policy: AWAD mailing list addresses are never sold, rented, leased, traded, swapped, exchanged, or bartered. We hate junk mail. Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/mesa.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/mesa.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/mesa.html This message was sent to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
