Words from the book: Into Thin Air

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"Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster" is a 1997 bestselling non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer. The book was a #1 New York Times bestseller and was also Time magazine's Book of the Year, and was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.
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  1. escarpment
    a long steep slope at the edge of a plateau or ridge
  2. argot
    a characteristic language of a particular group
  3. cherubic
    having a sweet nature befitting an angel
  4. appellation
    identifying words by which someone or something is called
  5. livery
    a uniform, especially worn by servants and chauffeurs
  6. madrigal
    an unaccompanied partsong for several voices
  7. nonpareil
    model of excellence or perfection of a kind
  8. promontory
    a natural elevation
  9. repel
    force or drive back
  10. serrated
    notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex
  11. striate
    marked with stripes
  12. tendril
    slender structure by which some plants attach to an object
  13. phantasmagoria
    a constantly changing medley of real or imagined images
  14. carapace
    hard outer covering or case of certain organisms
  15. wizened
    lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
  16. vertiginous
    having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling
  17. agonistic
    striving to overcome in argument
  18. gale
    a strong wind moving 34–40 knots
  19. abscess
    a localized collection of pus surrounded by inflamed tissue
  20. metastasize
    spread throughout the body
  21. penumbra
    a region of light shadow around the darkest part of a shadow
  22. ratiocination
    the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning
  23. tedium
    the feeling of being bored by something
  24. summit
    the top or extreme point of something
  25. catharsis
    purging the body to stimulate evacuation of the bowels
  26. protagonist
    the principal character in a work of fiction
  27. inextricably
    in a manner incapable of being disentangled or untied
  28. undulate
    move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
  29. annals
    a chronological account of events in successive years
  30. frenetic
    fast and energetic in an uncontrolled or wild way
  31. assignation
    a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers)
Created on Sat Jan 11 15:03:00 EST 2014 (updated Wed Apr 30 15:30:13 EDT 2014)

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