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The synonyms of “Precipice” are: cliff face, steep cliff, rock face, cliff, crag, bluff, height, escarpment, scarp, escarp, scar
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “precipice” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| bluff | The act of bluffing in poker deception by a false show of confidence in the strength of your cards. His game of bluff. |
| cliff | A steep high face of rock. A coast path along the top of rugged cliffs. |
| cliff face | A steep high face of rock. |
| crag | A shelly sandstone occurring in eastern England. |
| escarp | A steep artificial slope in front of a fortification. The reconstruction of escarps at the fortress of Gibraltar. |
| escarpment | A long, steep slope, especially one at the edge of a plateau or separating areas of land at different heights. |
| height | The vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top. The height of the tourist season. |
| rock face | Material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth’s crust. |
| scar | An indication of damage. The attack has left mental scars on Terry and his family. |
| scarp | A very steep bank or slope an escarpment. The north face is a very steep scarp. |
| steep cliff | A steep place (as on a hill. |
| arroyo | A stream or brook. |
| brae | A steep bank or hillside. A figure was spied struggling up the brae. |
| canyon | A deep gorge, typically one with a river flowing through it, as found in North America. The Grand Canyon. |
| cascade | Rush down in big quantities like a cascade. Teachers who are able to cascade their experience effectively. |
| chasm | A deep opening in the earth’s surface. The chasm between rich and poor. |
| cliff | A steep high face of rock. He stood on a high cliff overlooking the town. |
| descending | Coming down or downward. The categories are listed in descending order of usefulness. |
| edge | Strike the ball with the edge of the bat strike a ball delivered by the bowler with the edge of the bat. Connecticut avoided an upset and edged Yale 49 48. |
| foothill | A relatively low hill on the lower slope of a mountain. The camp lies in the foothills of the Andes. |
| glen | A narrow secluded valley (in the mountains. |
| gorge | The crop of a hawk. They gorged themselves on Cornish cream teas. |
| gradient | The vector formed by the operator ∇ acting on a scalar function at a given point in a scalar field. The path becomes very rough as the gradient increases. |
| hill | Form into a hill. If frost threatens our new plants we hill them up. |
| ledge | A window ledge. A reef ledge. |
| marsh | United States painter (1898-1954. The marsh marigold loves damp fields riverbanks and marshes. |
| mountain | A land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill. A mountain of paperwork. |
| obliquity | The quality of being deceptive. |
| perpendicular | Perpendicular position or direction. The perpendicular cliff. |
| precipitant | A substance that causes the precipitation of a specified substance. A protein precipitant. |
| precipitous | Done with very great haste and without due deliberation. The track skirted a precipitous drop. |
| promontory | A point of high land that juts out into the sea or a large lake; a headland. A rocky promontory. |
| ramp | Be rampant. The lion is rampant in this heraldic depiction. |
| ravine | A deep narrow steep-sided valley (especially one formed by running water. |
| ridge | Spade into alternate ridges and troughs. The North East ridge of Everest. |
| scarp | Provide a ditch in a fortification with a steep scarp and counterscarp. The north face is a very steep scarp. |
| steep | A steep mountain slope. She pushed the bike up the steep hill. |
| vale | A long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river. The Vale of Glamorgan. |
| valley | A long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river. The valley floor. |
| vertical | Something that is oriented vertically. The columns incline several degrees away from the vertical. |
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