Monday, August 27, 2007

Reading Vocab-o-log

  • Santiago de Compostela: (also Saint James of Compostela) is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain. The city's cathedral is the destination of the important medieval pilgrimage route, the Way of St James (in Spanish the Camino de Santiago).
  • Implacable: not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated
  • Marxism: see link
  • Ostensibly: 1. in an ostensible (1. intended for display : open to view 2. being such in appearance : plausible rather than demonstrably true or real) manner 2. to all outward appearances
  • Aquiline: 1. curving like an eagle's beak 2. of, relating to, or resembling an eagle
  • Mestizo: person of mixed blood; specifically: a person of mixed European and American Indian ancestry
  • Onanist: a person who practices masturbation

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