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.
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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 |