This week's theme: lesser-known counterparts of common words. dystopia (dis-TO-pee-uh) noun
An imaginary place where everything is very bad, as from oppression, disease, deprivation, etc. [From Greek dys- (bad) + utopia (an ideal place). Modeled after Utopia, an imaginary island described in Sir Thomas More's 1516 book Utopia as a place enjoying a perfect system in law, politics, etc. The word utopia is from Greek ou (not) + topos (place).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=dystopia -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a good model of the technological dystopia we should fear: Instead of social control enforced from the outside, Huxley envisioned a world enervated from within." Jeffrey Klein; Billing Us Softly; Mother Jones (San Francisco); Jan 11, 1998. Sponsors' messages: Who shall inherit the earth now? http://nthposition.com/inherittheearth.php "We love orijinz! hit of our dinner party - even the kids tried to get in on the fun! It's fast, fun, and so interesting." $14.95. http://entspire.com ............................................................................ We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves. -Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (1902-1983) Send your comments to (words AT wordsmith.org). To unsubscribe, update address send gift subscription, etc., visit http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscriber.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/dystopia.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/dystopia.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/dystopia.html This message was sent to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
