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  1. quantum
    the smallest discrete quantity of some physical property
  2. cornerstone
    the basic or fundamental part on which something depends
  3. advent
    arrival that has been awaited
  4. bespoke
    custom-made
  5. geode
    a hollow rock with an interior cavity lined with crystals
  6. dominion
    control or power through legal authority
  7. parable
    a short moral story
  8. penitent
    feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds
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  9. apogee
    the farthest point in an orbit around the Earth
  10. Gaea
    (Greek mythology) goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology
  11. horizon
    the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet
  12. cradle
    a baby bed with sides and rockers
  13. fissure
    a long narrow depression in a surface
  14. archetype
    something that serves as a model
  15. origin
    the place where something begins
  16. provenance
    where something originated or started
  17. happenstance
    an accidental event that seems to have been arranged
  18. serendipity
    good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries
  19. explorer
    someone who travels to unknown regions to make discoveries
  20. rare
    especially good, remarkable, or superlative
  21. arete
    a sharp narrow ridge found in rugged mountains
  22. cirque
    a bowl-shaped mountain basin formed by glacier erosion
  23. goldfields
    small slender woolly annual with very narrow opposite leaves and branches bearing solitary golden-yellow flower heads; southwestern Oregon to Baja California and Arizona; often cultivated
  24. prospector
    someone who explores an area for mineral deposits
  25. moraine
    accumulated earth and stones deposited by a glacier
  26. pathfinder
    someone who can find paths through unexplored territory
  27. yonder
    distant but within sight
  28. artefact
    a man-made object taken as a whole
  29. ancestry
    the lineage of an individual
  30. ascendancy
    the state when one person or group has power over another
  31. risk
    a source of danger
  32. jeopardy
    a source of danger
  33. dauntless
    invulnerable to fear or intimidation
  34. latitude
    an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator
  35. nugget
    a solid lump of a precious metal as found in the earth
  36. mythology
    the body of stories associated with a culture or institution
  37. ascension
    a movement upward
  38. basin
    a bowl-shaped vessel used for holding food or liquids
  39. alluvium
    clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down
  40. discovery
    the act of finding something
  41. arcanum
    information known only to a special group
  42. orphic
    having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding
  43. enigma
    something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
  44. vision
    the ability to see
  45. reverie
    an abstracted state of absorption
  46. quest
    the act of searching for something
  47. oddment
    a piece left over after the rest has been used
  48. glacier
    a slowly moving mass of ice
  49. undiscovered
    not discovered
  50. vagabond
    a wanderer with no established residence or means of support
  51. meander
    move or cause to move in a winding or curving course
  52. sentinel
    a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
  53. revelation
    the act of making something evident
Created on Tue Jan 27 00:26:14 EST 2009

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