GRE words: topic "Gap/opening"

word list: Hiatus, respite, aperture, interregnum, cleft, aperture, chap, crevice,  fissure, cranny, porta, obturate, occlude 
small opening:  aperture
long narrow crack: fissure. scissure, cleft.
Example: 

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For flash photography, set the aperture at f.5.6

The soldier fired the rifle through a narrow aperture in a pile of sandbags

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Eagles often nest in a cleft in the rocks. 

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fissures in a decaying empire 

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Small crack is interstice
Long narrow crack: crevice, cranny

Example: 
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The wall was  crumbling with plants growing in the interstices of the bricks. 
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The harsh light revealed every
 crevice and wrinkle in his face. 
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There were small plants growing in every nook and cranny of the wall. 

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hole, opening: porta, orifice
large crack in rock/ground: rift. That’s all!

Example: 
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I was stuffing cake into every available orifice. 
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The stream had cut a deep rift in the rock.
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The marriage caused a rift between the brothers and they didn't speak to each other for ten years.


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