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terrain

noun as in landscape

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If they cannot mass, they will not be as effective in taking terrain.

It is this kind of terrain that makes this country so hard to secure.

The drawback was that the terrain in front of Bradley made success very costly.

But that was a decade ago, and Lurie has moved into less jokey terrain.

As forbidding as this terrain is, there is another force at work on the ocean surface – the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.

It extends only a short distance into Virginia and consists mainly of rough, rugged terrain.

This action provided Virginians with knowledge of the type of terrain and its potentiality along this important borderline.

The original design of Wren had to be altered slightly because of the terrain of the country-side.

Captain Melendez studied the terrain with a hurried glance, and it was far from being favourable.

The terrain was fairly level, but a spirit level would have shown a marked tilt to the east.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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