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Sunny123 Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

steep descent

Hello everyone. in the following passage.
making a steep descent = making a fast descent
Right?

Our next conquest was to be a walk around Apsley Gorge, which involved going up to the top of the mountain through dense rainforest, then making a steep descent and returning through a dried up river bed full of huge boulders which required scrambling over.
  

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sunny123 making a steep descent = making a fast descent Right? Not necessarily. I would be inclined to make a steep descent slowly and carefully.

  • sunny123 making a steep descent = making a fast descent Right?
  • Not necessarily.
  • I would be inclined to make a steep descent slowly and carefully.
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sunny123making a steep descent = making a fast descent Right?
Not necessarily. I would be inclined to make a steep descent slowly and carefully.
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sunny123making a steep descent = making a fast descent Right?
No. It means making a descent at a sharp angle http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/steep
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