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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 terrain | a piece of ground having specific characteristics or military potential |
| bask | derive or receive pleasure from |
| husky | muscular and heavily built |
| pristine | fresh and clean; uncorrupted |
| wallow | roll around, "pigs were wallowing in the mud";billow |
| ascent | n. A rising, soaring, or climbing. |
| muffle | deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping |
| objection | the act of protesting |
| boisterous | noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline |
| peer | a person who is of equal standing with another in a group;comrade; one who has equal standing with another; nobleman; V: look intently; N. peerage; |
| amplify | increase the volume of |
| harsh | severe |
| larder | a small storeroom for storing foods or wines, a supply of food |
| disperse | to cause to separate and go in different directions |
| sedate | cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to, characterized by dignity and propriety |
| climate | the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time |
| swarm | a group of many insects |
| fruitless | unproductive of success, barren; yielding no results |
| shingle | tile, a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g., woman's haircut |
| probe | a flexible slender surgical instrument used to explore wounds or body cavities, examine physically with or as if with a probe |
| rugged | rocky and steep, (adj) rough, irregular; severe, stern; strong; stormy |
| glimpse | a quick look, a vague indication |
| curb | an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter), place restrictions on |
| barren | not bearing offspring, incapable of sustaining life |
| scale | a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals, reach the highest point of, remove the scales from, the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it |
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