Meaning: The monkey used its hands and feet to move up a tree or other structure.
Choice of Words: Monkey is the subject, climbed is the verb, up is the direction, and high is the adjective describing how far the monkey climbed.
Alternative Expressions
The monkey ascended a great height.
Meaning: This means the same thing as the first sentence, but it uses fancier words.
Choice of Words:Ascended is a fancy word for climbed up. Great means very big. Height means how high something is. When you put them together, "The monkey ascended a great height" tells us that the monkey climbed up very high.
The simian arboreal adventurer scaled an impressive vertical distance.
Meaning: This sentence is very long and uses a lot of fancy words, but it means the same thing as the first two sentences.
Choice of Words:Simian is a scientific word for monkey. Arboreal means living in trees. Adventurer means someone who likes to explore and climb. Scaled means to climb up something. Impressive means very big or amazing. Vertical means straight up and down. Distance means how far away something is. When you put them together, "The simian arboreal adventurer scaled an impressive vertical distance" tells us that the monkey climbed up a very high tree.