Monday, February 22, 2010

The Radicant: Vocab

proletariat |ˌprōliˈte(ə)rēət| (also archaic proletariate)

noun [treated as sing. or pl. ]

workers or working-class people, regarded collectively (often used with reference to Marxism) : the growth of the industrial proletariat.

the lowest class of citizens in ancient Rome.


heterogeneous |ˌhetərəˈjēnēəs|

adjective

diverse in character or content : a large and heterogeneous collection.

Chemistry of or denoting a process involving substances in different phases (solid, liquid, or gaseous).


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