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).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| misnomer | the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument |
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| emulate | to strive to equal or excel |
| endorse | to write on the back of |
| cuisine | manner of preparing food : style of cooking |
| colossal | of, relating to, or resembling a colossus |
| canny | clever |
| denotation | an act or process of denoting |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| factious | of or relating to faction: such as |