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 |
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| 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 |
| relish | characteristic flavor |
| brand | a charred piece of wood |
| stump | the basal portion of a bodily part remaining after the rest is removed |
| filch | to steal secretly or casually |
| bemused | marked by confusion or bewilderment : dazed |
| paltry | inferior |
| virtue | conformity to a standard of right : morality |
| ruddy | having a healthy reddish color |
| amnesty | the act of an authority (such as a government) by which pardon is granted to a large group of individuals |