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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| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
| emend | to correct usually by textual alterations |
| pious | marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine worship |
| miscellany | separate writings collected in one volume |
| potable | suitable for drinking |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| glow | to shine with or as if with an intense heat |
| subordinate | placed in or occupying a lower class, rank, or position : inferior |
| sinecure | an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |