Vocab Chapter 1-5

Question 0

precipices

Answer 0

A cliff with a vertical, nearly vertical or overhanging face.

“It was a pyramid built up out of a thousand parts- out of granite and limestone and snow and ice, out of glaciers, precipices”

Question 1

besieged

Answer 1

To lay sledge to or conquer

Question 2

Deft

Answer 2

Dexterous, nimble, skillful, clever

Question 3

Terminal moraine

Answer 3

a moraine marking the end of a glacier

Question 4

Crevasses

Answer 4

A fissure or deep left in glacial ice

Question 5

Menacing

Answer 5

Something that threatens

Question 6

Col

Answer 6

a pass or depression in a mountain

Question 7

Chasm

Answer 7

A gap in earths surface

Question 8

Taut

Answer 8

Tightly drawn tense not slack

Question 9

Pummeled

Answer 9

To beat or trash with or as withe the fists

Question 10

Reconnoiter

Answer 10

To inspect observe or survey

Question 11

Craggy

Answer 11

Full of crags or steep and rugged cliffs

Question 12

Weathered

Answer 12

Seasoned or otherwise affected by exposure to the water

Question 13

Tree line

Answer 13

Timberline

Question 14

Unencumbered

Answer 14

Not impeded slowed down or retarded

Question 15

Obliquently

Answer 15

In an oblique manner or direction

In a sloping manner

Question 16

Buttress

Answer 16

Any external prop or support

Question 17

Mica

Answer 17

Any member of a group of minerals

Question 18

Jousting

Answer 18

A combat where two knights try to knock themselfs of horses

Question 19

Preeminent

Answer 19

Eminent above or before others

Question 20

Tremor

Answer 20

Involuntary shaking of the body or the limbs

Question 21

Disintegrated

Answer 21

To separate into parts or lose intact ness or solidness

Question 22

Contemptuous

Answer 22

Showing or expressing contempt or disdain