Extremely steep or craggy as if broken up; precipitous.
Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious.
Curt in manner.
Suddenly terminating, as if cut off; truncate.
Having sudden transitions from one subject or state to another; unconnected; disjointed.
Something which is abrupt; an abyss.
To interrupt suddenly.
steep, precipitous.
smooth; unwrinkled
Any of several wild geese, of the genus Branta, that breed in the Arctic, but especially the brent goose, Branta bernicla.