Glossary
Chapter 1
  blurred not clear
  bulky large
  claim say that something is true
  close-up a picture of something up close
  creature a living thing
  eels fish that look like snakes
  enormous very big, huge
  ferocious very fierce or cruel
  flippers wide parts of the body on certain sea animals, used for swimming
  frightened scared
  grainy unclear
  legendary based on a story that is handed down over time
  legends stories from long ago
  loch a lake
  monster a scary creature
  murky unclear and dark
  mysterious having no known cause
  plesiosaur a type of dinosaur
  practical jokes tricks
  prehistoric the time before people wrote about history
  reappeared appeared again, came back
  remote far away from other places
  reptile a type of animal that is cold-blooded and lays eggs; examples are snakes and lizards
  retreated moved away from
  Scotland one of the nations in the United Kingdom
  sharpen make better, make clearer
  sightings things that people see
  sonar a tool used to find things under water
  spotting seeing
  survivor something that still lives
  swarmed moved together in a large group
  swirled turned