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Words of interest from Macmillan Dictionary
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butte

14 January 2012 - 5:30pm
a hill with a flat top and steep sides in a flat area of land

mesa

13 January 2012 - 5:30pm
a small area of flat high land with steep sides, especially in the south-west US

massif

12 January 2012 - 5:30pm
a group of mountains that form a large unit

hummock

11 January 2012 - 5:30pm
a small area of ground that is slightly higher than the ground around it

dune

10 January 2012 - 5:30pm
a hill of sand on a beach or in a desert

dale

9 January 2012 - 5:30pm
an old word meaning ‘valley’. It is now mainly used for talking about the valleys in...

atoll

8 January 2012 - 5:30pm
an island in the form of a ring, made of coral (=the pink or white outer structure of very small...

ben

7 January 2012 - 5:30pm
a mountain. Ben is also used in names of mountains, for example ‘Ben Nevis’.

scads

6 January 2012 - 5:30pm
a large number or amount of something

draconian

5 January 2012 - 5:30pm
extremely strict and severe

salami

14 December 2011 - 5:00am
a type of sausage containing strong spices, cut thin and served cold

jerky_6

13 December 2011 - 5:00am
meat cut in thin strips and dried

schnitzel

12 December 2011 - 5:00am
a piece of meat that is covered in breadcrumbs (=very small pieces of bread) and cooked in oil

gold-rush

11 December 2011 - 5:00am
a period in the past when a lot of people went to a place where gold had been discovered in order...

lode

10 December 2011 - 5:00am
an amount of metal ore in the earth

opencast

9 December 2011 - 5:00am
an opencast mine is a mine where coal is dug from a large hole in the ground, rather than from a...

colliery

8 December 2011 - 5:00am
a coal mine and the buildings around it

slag-heap

7 December 2011 - 5:00am
a large pile of waste produced after coal or a metal has been taken out of the earth and processed

coal

6 December 2011 - 5:00am
a hard black substance that is dug from the ground and burned as fuel to provide heat

astrophysicist

5 December 2011 - 5:00am
someone who studies astrophysics