GRE Word List
PROMONTORY
a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water
The meaning of the word promontory is a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| figment | something made up or contrived |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| commonwealth | a nation, state, or other political unit: such as |
| dissimulate | to hide under a false appearance |
| auroral | dawn |
| nefarious | flagrantly wicked or impious : evil |
| recast | to cast again |
| implode | to burst inward |
| personify | to conceive of or represent as a person or as having human qualities or powers |
