A cliff with a vertical or nearly vertical overhanging face
What is a precipice?
200
To lift and balance something with weight
What is hefted?
200
To diminish gradually and stop
What is petered?
200
Threatening
What is menacing?
200
Not describable
What is indescribably?
300
Making marks that cannot be erased or removed
What is indelibly?
300
A mass of snow or ice projecting over a mountain ridge
What are cornices?
300
To crowd around or surround; to assail
What is besiege?
300
A yawning fissure or deep cleft in the earth's surface; gorge
What is a chasm?
300
A dunce, blockhead, or dolt (fool, idiot)
What is an imbecile?
400
A moraine marking the farthest advance of a glacier or ice sheet
(Moraine: a ridge, mound, or irregular mass of glacial drift - boulders, gravel, sand, and clay)
What is a terminal moraine?
400
A bushy-tailed rodent
What is a marmot?
400
Pertaining to living organisms
What is organic?
400
Tight
What is taut?
400
Unable to be endured
What is unendurable?
500
An indication or omen of something bad about to happen