Chapters 11-15 Flashcards
(25 cards)
A series of rock towers
Gendarmes
A high point of land or rock projecting into a lowland
Promontory
Not being able to be conquered
Impregnable
A deep imeasurable space
Abyss
A space or opening
Cleft
Between the ribs and the hips
Flank
A current at variance, air or water moving in a circular motion
Eddies
A steep rugged rock
Crag
Barren or laid waste
Desolate
A cloth or sheet
Shroud
A visible spirit or ghost
Specter
To secretly help someone do something unlawful, cooperate secretly
Connived
Passionate, marked by force
Impetuous
Happening at the same time
Simultaneously
An unfortunate accident or bad luck
Mishaps
A stream that flows to a larger stream or body of water
Tributary
To remove all traces of something, to cause to disappear
Obliterated
Suggesting something bad is going to happen in the future
Ominous
Causing fear or causing wonder, respect
Formidable
Vertical
Perpendicular
Depending on situation beyond one’s control
Precarious
Hard to handle because of size
Cumbersome
Prominent, continuous, horizontally projecting figure
Cornice
Twisting the body around
Writhed