DAVID
Glossary
of terms
Sonny
Moroz
Survey:
mountain chain
Wages
: reward, usually used in plural but sing. <the wages
of sin is death>
Wail:
a sound suggestive of wailing: loud lamentation
Ruck:
an indistinguishable gathering
Surly
poker: irritably sullen and churlish in mood or manner
Wrangling:
to dispute angrily or peevishly, annoying
Fetid:
having a heavy offensive smell
Coltish:
of, relating to, or resembling a colt, powerful
Curling:
a game in which two teams of four players each slide
curling stones over a stretch of ice toward a target
circle, a Canadian sport.
Faceted:
a smooth flat circumscribed anatomical surface (as of
a bone)
Swell:
a long often massive and crestless wave or succession
of waves often continuing beyond or after its cause.
Sprawling:
to spread or develop irregularly
Inlet:
a narrow water passage between peninsulas or through
a barrier island leading to a bay or lagoon
Festooned:
decorate, adorn
Poplar:
any of a genus slender catkin-bearing quick-growing
trees of the willow family
Prong:
a slender pointed or projecting part
Pines:
a northern tree
Unfurling:
to open out from or as if from a furled state
Prairie:
land in or predominantly in grass
Skree:
A sloping mass of loose rocks at the base of a cliff
Shale:
a fissile rock that is formed by the consolidation of
clay, mud, or silt, has a finely stratified or laminated
structure, and is composed of minerals essentially unaltered
since deposition
Larche:
any of a genus of trees of the pine family with short
fascicled deciduous leaves
Juniper:
any of numerous shrubs or trees of the cypress family
with leaves resembling needles or scales and female
cones usually resembling berries
Gentian:
any of numerous herbs with opposite smooth leaves and
showy usually blue flowers
Saxifrage:
any of a genus of chiefly perennial herbs
Whirring:
to move or carry rapidly with a whir
Fern:
any of a large class of flowerless spore-producing vascular
plants
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