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| Main Entry: |
bluff
 [bluhf] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | precipice |
| Synonyms: | bank, cliff, crag, escarpment, headland, hill, mountain, peak, promontory, ridge, rock |
| Main Entry: | mountain |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very large hill |
| Synonyms: | abundance, alp, bank, bluff, butte, cliff, crag, dome, drift, elevation, eminence, glob, heap, height, hump, mass, mesa, mound, mount, palisade, peak, pike, pile, precipice, pyramid, range, ridge, shock, sierra, stack, ton, tor, volcano |
| Antonyms: | crevasse, valley |
| Main Entry: | precipice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | face or brink of a rock, mountain |
| Synonyms: | bluff, cliff, crag, height, sheer drop, steep |
Example Sentences
- They are taken to an abandoned monastery on a needle-shape crag.
- He's a gentle giant of a creature, who looks down on the rest of the world from a sad and isolated crag.
| Main Entry: | prominence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something that sticks out |
| Synonyms: | bulge, bump, cliff, conspicuity, conspicuousness, crag, crest, elevation, eminence, headland, height, high point, jutting, markedness, mound, pinnacle, projection, promontory, protrusion, protuberance, rise, spur, swelling, tor |
| Antonyms: | depression |
| Main Entry: | rock |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stone |
| Synonyms: | bedrock, boulder, cobblestone, crag, crust, earth, gravel, lava, lodge, mass, metal, mineral, ore, pebble, promontory, quarry, reef, rubble, shelf, slab, slag |
| Main Entry: | stone |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hard piece of earth's surface |
| Synonyms: | boulder, crag, crystal, gem, grain, gravel, jewel, masonry, metal, mineral, ore, pebble, rock, stonework |
| Main Entry: | arete |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ridge |
| Synonyms: | crag, crest |
| Main Entry: | dropoff |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cliff |
| Synonyms: | bluff, crag, drop, ledge, precipice |
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