Word Of The Week, 6/27/10

My Word of the Week for June 27, 2010 is:

des-o-la-tion

1. a. grief, sadness b. loneliness
2. devastation, ruin
3. barren wasteland

The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness.
- from White Fang (by Jack London), Chapter 1