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 |
|---|---|
| resourceful | able to meet situations : capable of devising ways and means |
| pulsate | to throb or move rhythmically : vibrate |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| zeal | eagerness and ardent interest in pursuit of something : fervor |
| hummock | a rounded knoll or hillock |
| frustrate | to balk or defeat in an endeavor |
| hap | happening |
| cascade | a steep usually small fall of water |
| antagonism | opposition of a conflicting force, tendency, or principle |
| vagabond | a person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home : one leading a vagabond life |