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The Explorer Chapter 13
Smoke (p150-162)
Word Definition (Collins COBUILD) Synonymsswelteringly(p.150)
If you describe the weather as sweltering, you mean that it is extremely hot and makes you feel uncomfortable.
hot, burning, boiling, steaming, baking, stifling
gorged(p.150)
If you gorge on something or gorge yourself on it, you eat lots of it in a very greedy way.
devour, gobble, overeat, guzzle, wolf
provisions(p.151)
Provisions are supplies of food. supplies, foodstuffs, rations
billowing(p.152)
When smoke or cloud billows, it moves slowly upwards or across the sky.
flowing, streaming, coursing
paralysed(p.152)
If a person, place, or organisation is paralysed by something, they become unable to act or function properly.
immobilised, frozen, stunned, numbed, transfixed, halted, arrested
frantically(p.152)
If you are frantic, you are behaving in a wild and uncontrolled way because you are frightened or worried.
frenzied, wildly, madly
unrecognisable(p.152)
If someone or something is unrecognisable, they have become impossible to recognize or identify, for example because they have been greatly changed or damaged.
unidentifiable, disguised, changed, altered
whimpering(p.153)
If someone whimpers, they make quiet, unhappy or frightened sounds, as if they are about to start crying.
moan, whine, weep, whinge, blubber,
coaxing(p.154)
If you coax someone into doing something, you gently try to persuade them to do it.
persuade, flatter, entice, wheedle, cajole
rigid(p.154)
If someone goes rigid, their body becomes very straight and stiff, usually as a result of shock or fear.
hard, firm, taut, stiff
erupting(p.154)
When a volcano erupts, it throws out a lot of hot, melted rock called lava, as well as ash and steam. If violence or fighting erupts, it suddenly begins or gets worse in an unexpected, violent way.
explode, gush, flare up
plummeted(p.155)
If someone or something plummets, they fall very fast towards the ground, usually from a great height.
plunge, fall, drop, crash, nosedive
eddy(p.155)
An eddy is a movement in water or in the air which goes round and round instead of flowing in one continuous direction.
swirl, whirlpool, counter-current, undertow, vortex
plausible(p.155)
An explanation or statement that is plausible seems likely to be true or valid.
believable, credible, possible, likely, credible, tenable, conceivable, probable
hacking(p.156)
A hacking cough is a dry, painful cough with a harsh, unpleasant sound.
rasping, barking, wheezing
current A current is a steady and continuous flowing movement of course, undertow, tide
The Explorer Chapter 13
Smoke (p150-162)
(p.156) some of the water in a river, lake, or sea.capable(p.157)
If a person or thing is capable of doing something, they have the ability to do it.
able, competent
propelling(p.158)
To propel something in a particular direction means to cause it to move in that direction.
driving, forcing, pushing, thrusting, shooting
defeatist(p.160)
A defeatist is someone who thinks or talks in a way that suggests that they expect to be unsuccessful.
pessimistic, sceptic, cynic,
etching(p.160)
If a line or pattern is etched into a surface, it is cut into the surface by means of acid or a sharp tool. You can also say that a surface is etched with a line or pattern.
engrave, carve, inscribe, cut
dappled(p.161)
Dapple means to mark or become marked with spots or patches of a different colour.
mottled, dotted, spotted, speckled
coasted(p.161)
If a vehicle coasts somewhere, it continues to move there with the motor switched off, or without being pushed or pedalled.
cruise, sail, drift, glide, freewheel
flecked(p.162)
Flecks are small marks on a surface, or objects that look like small marks.
dappled, speckled marked, dotted, streaked, spotted