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glacier

noun as in mountain of ice, snow

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Two figures stand on a jagged glacier floating in the deep, cold waters.

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The skin across his cheekbones was cracked and reddened from a life spent outdoors, and his eyes were blue as glacier ice.

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Now she knew how to use crampons and a pickax to scale a glacier, and was keenly aware of how cautious one must be around cannibals.

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Iceberg calving happens when large pieces of ice split from the front of a glacier and fall into the ocean.

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A glacier on the Eastern Antarctic Peninsula has undergone the quickest ice loss documented in modern times, according to a major international study co-authored by Swansea University.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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