Ascent: climb up
Ingenious simplicity: clever, original
Foremost: before everything
Marvellous: extraordinary
Paradox: contradictory statement
Craftsman: a skilful person
Measly: ridiculously small or few
Morsels: a small piece or amount of food
Cogs: tooth
Spits and splutters: to speak in haste
Interminable: infinite
Boredom: malaise, apathy
Unravelling: untangle, straighten out
Tropical: equator
Subtropical: near equator
Exertion: effort
Exotic: foreigner, unusual
Outlandish: Unusual, Bizarre
Pull off: succeed in achieving or winning something difficult.
Euphrates: longest river
Nifty: attractive, stylish, particularly good
Contraption: Machine, Device, Apparatus
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