This Week In Words (12-3-06)

Ailurophile >n. a cat lover. 

Dacha >n. a country house or cottage in Russia, typically used as a second or vacation home.

–origin mid 19th cent.: Russian, originally ‘grant (of land).’ 

Inexorable >adj. impossible to stop or prevent: the seemingly inexorable march of new technology.

— (of a person) impossible to persuade by request or entreaty: the doctors were inexorable, and there was nothing to be done.

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