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Miniseries "Blue Planet II" » The Deep
00:58:08
David Attenborough
73
Nouns
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1)
lanternfish
Only at night, do vast shoals of lanternfish
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2)
flapjack
The flapjack octopus.
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3)
tonn
Thirty tonn of it.
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4)
profusion
there is a profusion of life.
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5)
microbe
To provide sustenance for these microbe,
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sustenance
To provide sustenance for these microbes,
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7)
blackness
into the world of perpetual blackness below.
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8)
shoal
Only at night, do vast shoal of lanternfish
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9)
larva
were swept into this sponge when they were tiny larva,
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10)
mussel
Giant mussel that can live or grow for a century or more,
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11)
ravine
Down here, in these deep ravine,
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12)
millennia
that have flourished here for millennia
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13)
submersible
and her twin submersible, Deep Rover and Nadir.
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14)
scavenger
A month on, and over 30 species of scavenger
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15)
kilo
Two metres long and 50 kilo in weight.
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16)
underside
right up to the underside face of an iceberg.
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17)
puddle
a puddle is forming on the floor of the sub.
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18)
carcass
the carcass of a huge sperm whale
Verbs
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1)
dislodge
Some of the whale's teeth have been dislodge
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2)
submerge
Sinking down beside the submerge wall of an iceberg,
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3)
gush
Gases and scalding water gush up through the crevices.
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4)
illuminate
Hunters illuminate themselves,
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5)
cram
are cram into a single square metre.
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6)
descend
No human being has ever descend into the depths that surround it...
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7)
flourish
that have flourish here for millennia
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8)
dissolve
dissolve in the searingly hot fluid.
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9)
enrich
that enrich the Antarctic deep seabed
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10)
plunge
Canyons that plunge towards the centre of the earth.
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11)
accumulate
it accumulate in great pools on the sea floor.
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12)
gorge
The first arrival has gorge
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13)
migrate
migrate to the surface to feed on tiny plankton.
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14)
dwarf
A tube of jelly two metres long that dwarf a visitor from above,
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15)
fade
The sunlight fade,
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16)
sweep
were swept into this sponge when they were tiny larvae,
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17)
tear
the ocean floor is being torn apart.
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18)
steal
and steal its catch.
Adverbs
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1)
in.
They're now far too big to go out the way they came in.
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2)
ominously
The Sound is ominously known as "Iceberg Alley".
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3)
habitually
Scabbardfish, habitually swimming upright,
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4)
delicately
as it delicately sifts through it searching for worms.
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5)
graphically
make it possible to graphically reconstruct an image
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6)
exceptionally
have an exceptionally acute sense of smell.
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7)
seldom
They seldom go deeper
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8)
tightly
pack tightly together,
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9)
presumably
presumably as makeshift body armour.
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10)
upright
Scabbardfish, habitually swimming upright,
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11)
permanently
Its right eye looks permanently downwards.
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12)
repeatedly
They repeatedly clone themselves,
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13)
nowhere
it seems that there is nowhere in the deep sea
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14)
solely
Without sunlight, they rely solely on food
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15)
virtually
Siphonophores are virtually eternal.
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16)
potentially
The waters of the Antarctic Sound are potentially rich,
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17)
somewhere
then surely it could exist somewhere out there.
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18)
eventually
some eventually growing longer than a blue whale.
Adjectives
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ravenous
Two more ravenous sixgills arrive.
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2)
voracious
Like most squid, they're voracious hunters.
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miniscule
manage to survive on the miniscule amount of food that drifts down here.
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4)
unforgiving
we enter an unforgiving world.
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uppermost
to the uppermost limit of the Twilight Zone,
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6)
inquisitive
attract inquisitive prey.
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7)
unimaginable
But, in fact, we find life here in unimaginable abundance.
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8)
fraught
But that is a strategy fraught with danger.
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bustling
Next time, we travel to bustling coral reefs.
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squat
dwarfing the shrimps and squat lobsters that feed around them.
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dazzling
produce dazzling displays of light.
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12)
luminous
A decoy of luminous ink.
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13)
oceanic
an oceanic whitetip shark.
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14)
edible
are clearing away the last edible fragments.
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15)
gigantic
gigantic cracks stretch for many miles across the ocean floor.
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16)
volcanic
Over three quarters of the planet's volcanic activity
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17)
perpetual
Its eyes are as big as tennis balls to help it see in the perpetual dusk.
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antarctic
Nor is such great abundance confined to Antarctic waters.
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