BIG UNIT TEST #3 2nd nine weeks
Terms
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copy deck
- cavern
- large cave
- tethered
- tied to the end of a rope
- lethal
- deadly
- exhaustive
- thorough
- mesmerized
- fascinated
- umbilical cord
- cord that connects an unborn baby to its mother
- ironic
- strangely funny; unexpected
- hangared
- stored in a large, barnlike building for aircraft
- rudder
- hinged piece of metal used to steer a plane
- reef
- a ridge of rocks, sand near the surface of the water
- disintegrated
- crumbled; fell apart
- lures
- attracts and tempts
- monopolozing
- keeping something entirely to oneself
- meteor
- a mass of stone or metal from outerspace that speeds towards earth
- gills
- body part of a fish used to breathe in the water
- logged
- recorded the number of flights
- authentic
- real; true
- game
- wild animals
- horizon
- line where earth seems to meet the sky
- decelerated
- slowed down
- tourniquet
- a device to stop bleeding
- mutilated
- seriously injured by tearing off some part
- fatigues
- work clothes worn by soldiers
- clambered
- climbed using both hands and feet
- stench
- terrible smell
- demented
- crazy; insane
- pincer
- claw like those of crabs and lobsters
- bowels
- inner part
- alien
- a strange being from another planet
- eerily
- strangely, weirdly
- scuba diving
- swimming underwater using oxygen tanks
- fuselage
- body of an airplane
- guffawed
- laughed loudly
- spectrum
- a broad range
- inlet
- a narrow strip of water extending into the land
- petrifying
- paralyzing with fear
- sacrifice
- an offering to god
- scrutiny
- examination
- bank
- to make a plane tilt to one side
- eroded
- worn down
- descendants
- children and grandchildren
- denizens
- occupants; creatures who live there
- altimeter
- an instrument that measures altitude
- engulf
- to swallow up
- crevice
- a narrow crack
- bespectacled
- wearing glasses
- canopy
- a covering
- ominous
- threatening
- incline
- a slanting surface
- altitude
- height above the earth's surface
- waning
- dying out
- dismembered
- cut or torn the limbs from
- ordeal
- test or experiment
- seismic
- having to do with earthquakes
- ten-four
- okay
- torpedo
- a large cigar shaped explosive
- Plexiglas
- hard transparent plastic
- finale
- last part of a public performance
- plummeted
- plunged or dropped
- sensation
- a strong or excited feeling
- Richter Scale
- a system for measuring the strength of an earthquake
- snorkeling
- swimming near the surface of the water and breathing through a tube
- severed
- cut off
- epicenter
- point directly above the center of an earthquake