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 |
|---|---|
| atypical | not typical : irregular |
| tenacity | the quality or state of being tenacious |
| revelry | noisy partying or merrymaking |
| takeoff | a rise or leap from a surface in making a jump or flight or an ascent in an aircraft or in the launching of a rocket |
| extrinsic | not forming part of or belonging to a thing : extraneous |
| conviction | the act or process of finding a person guilty of a crime especially in a court of law |
| comeuppance | a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts |
| rubble | broken fragments (as of rock) resulting from the decay or destruction of a building |
| miscellaneous | consisting of diverse things or members : heterogeneous |
| interminable | having or seeming to have no end |