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.
