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WORDS FOR
THIS WEEK
Posted For 9 Years and 50 Consecutive Weeks
Monday 01/23/12 thru Friday 01/27/12
Words Related To Landscape
prepared by
ANDREW D. JAMIESON

Monday's Word

fen = low, flat, swampy land; a bog or marsh; low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation

In the southeastern district of Lincolnshire and the northern part of Cambridgeshire, a vast extent of flat land, intersected in every direction by rivers and dykes, is known as the fen country


Tuesday's Word

fosse = a ditch or moat

Avebury had at one time within a great rampart and a fosse, which is still forty feet deep, a large circle of rough unhewn stones, and within this two circles each containing a smaller concentric circle.


Wednesday's Word

swale = a low tract of land, especially when moist or marshy; shallow troughlike depression that carries water mainly during rainstorms or snow melts

I went to the top of a hill and saw the colt at the far side of the pasture in what we call the swale -- low, wet ground, where weeds abound.


Thursday's Word

sward = land covered with grassy turf; a lawn or meadow

The moonlight on the lawn was tremulous, as if the sward were a rippling sea.


Friday's Word

wold = an unforested rolling plain; a moor; a grassland

The house stood out in the open, a broad wold, devoid of trees, the sparse vegetation stubbled with smooth rocks.


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