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vineyard

vine‧yard /ˈvɪnjəd $ -jərd/ ●○○ noun [countable]

  • vineyard
    • a piece of land where grapevines are grown in order to produce wine

savagery

sav‧ag‧e‧ry /ˈsævɪdʒəri/ noun (plural savageries) [countable, uncountable]

  • extremely cruel and violent behaviour:
    • Local people were shocked by the savagery of the attack.

vantage

vantage noun /ˈvan-tij /

  1. archaic : benefit, gain
  2. superiority in a contest
  3. a position giving a strategic advantage, commanding perspective, or comprehensive view
  4. advantage 4
  • to the vantage
    • obsolete : in addition
  • the vantage had all been ours for the first half of the contest

strewn

strewn /struːn/

  1. ADJ [v-link ADJ with n] If a place is strewn with things, they are lying scattered there.
    • ❏ The front room was strewn with books and clothes.
    • ❏ The riverbed was strewn with big boulders.
    • COMB Strewn is also a combining form.
    • ❏ ...a litter-strewn street.
    • ❏ ...a rock-strewn hillside.
  2. Strewn is the past participle of strew.

stygian

stygian adjective,often capitalized /ˈsti-j(ē-)ən /

  1. of or relating to the river Styx
  2. extremely dark, gloomy, or forbidding
    • the stygian blackness of the cave
  • lost in the stygian reaches of the deep forest