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abrupt
Adjective
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An abrupt action is one that is sudden, or not expected.
There was an abrupt change in the weather, and it started raining before we could get home.
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An abrupt landscape is one with sudden steep changes.
We came to a halt because we could not pass the abrupt cliffs.
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noun
small slender gull having narrow wings and a forked tail