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steep
Adjective
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If a hill or slope is steep, it goes up at a high angle.
Be very careful; the hill is very steep and it's easy to fall and hurt yourself.
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If a price or cost of something is steep, it is very high or expensive.
$500 for an old, used television set? No thanks, that's too steep for me.
steep
Verb
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To soak something in a liquid.
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To be soaked in a liquid.
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To be full of some quality.
The accident is steeped in mystery.
The town is steeped in history.
and
Conjunction
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You use and to talk about two things at once.
I like singing and reading.
Mary and Jane went on a holiday together.
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You use and when you are listing a few things and you are now on your last item of the list.
I like singing, reading, cycling and playing soccer.
I used to like this girl from my class as she is pretty, gentle and caring.
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And is used when you are putting two sentences together.
She came into the store, shouted at the cashier, and left.
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Used to show what happened after something else.
The alarm went off and I woke up.
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And is used to join certain numbers together.
Two hundred and thirty-five people went missing after the earthquake.
rugged
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adjective
sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring
with a house full of boys you have to have rugged furniture
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adjective
(= tough)
very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution
a rugged competitive examination
the rugged conditions of frontier life
the competition was tough
it's a tough life
it was a tough job
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adjective
(= broken)
topographically very uneven
broken terrain
rugged ground
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adjective
(= furrowed)
having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface
furrowed fields
his furrowed face lit by a warming smile