GRE Word List
ACCLIVITY
an ascending slope (as of a hill)
The meaning of the word acclivity is an ascending slope (as of a hill).
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| Word | Meaning |
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| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| prosper | to succeed in an enterprise or activity |
| affinity | relationship by marriage |
| rectify | to set right : remedy |
| intimate | marked by a warm friendship developing through long association |
| renege | to go back on a promise or commitment |
| nonplus | a state of bafflement or perplexity : quandary |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| incorporeal | not corporeal : having no material body or form |
| saturnine | born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn |