Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Rapine ravine

Rapine, according to the SlovoEd dictionary, means to pillage and/or plunder. But how would you use it in a sentence eg I'll be back in a bit; I'm off to rapine. Or: rapine now, repent later. It would be helpful if SlovoEd indicated parts of speech: oops, hold on - does that blue "n" mean something? Besides that I need to spend more time with dictionaries? Noun, hey? It was ill-gotten rapine, as rapine often is. Hmm - how is it that "pillage" and "plunder" are both nouns and verbs, but not rapine? (This is why I enjoy doing crosswords - and why having a dictionary on my PDA is particularly useful.)

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