Definitions: Encounter, Memorial, and More
Definitions
Encounter: a meeting, especially one that happens by chance.
Memorial: an object, often large and made of stone, that has been built to honour a famous person or event.
Stunned: very shocked or surprised.
Firsthand: If you experience something firsthand, you experience it yourself.
Carvings: a shape or pattern cut into wood or stone or the skill of doing this.
Immortalized: to make someone or something so famous that that person or thing is remembered for a very long time.
Gazing: to look at something or someone for a long time, especially in surprise or admiration, or because you are thinking about something else.
Vandal: a person who intentionally damages property belonging to other people.
Virtual: almost a particular thing or quality.
Empire: a group of countries ruled by a single person, government, or country.
Accounts: an official record of all the money a person or company has spent and received.
Exceptions: someone or something that is not included in a rule, group, or list or that does not behave in the expected way.
Took over: to begin to have control of something.
Historians: someone who writes about or studies history.
Cutting-edge: the most modern stage of development in a particular type of work or activity.
Initial: of or at the beginning.
Spotted: covered in small, usually round areas of colour.
Disrespectful: lacking respect.
Forged: to make an illegal copy of something in order to deceive.
Preposterous: very silly or stupid.
Layers: a level of material, such as a type of rock or gas, that is different from the material above or below it, or a thin sheet of a substance.
Squashed: to crush something into a flat shape.
Spinning: to (cause to) turn around and around, especially fast.
Squeezed: to press something firmly, especially from all sides in order to change its shape, reduce its size, or remove liquid from it.
Infinitely: very or very much.
Spy on: to watch someone or something secretly, often in order to discover information about him, her, or it.
Abruptly: in a sudden, unexpected, and sometimes unpleasant way.
Sprouts: to produce leaves, hair, or other new developing parts, or (of leaves, hair, and other developing parts) to begin to grow.
Catastrophe: a sudden event that causes very great trouble or destruction.
Scenario: a description of possible actions or events in the future.
Atmosphere: the mixture of gases around the earth.
Dilemma: a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two different things you could do.
Deflect: to (cause to) change direction, or to prevent something from being directed at you.
Rotating: used to describe a job that is done at different times by different people.
Drawback: a disadvantage or the negative part of a situation.
Engaged: having formally agreed to marry.
Motor: a device that changes electricity or fuel into movement and makes a machine work.
Collision: an accident that happens when two vehicles hit each other with force.