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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| Word | Meaning |
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| verbiage | a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content |
| prehensile | adapted for seizing or grasping especially by wrapping around |
| vernacular | using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language |
| deadlock | a state of inaction or neutralization resulting from the opposition of equally powerful uncompromising persons or factions : standstill |
| redress | to set right : remedy |
| stumble | to fall into sin or waywardness |
| enclave | a distinct territorial, cultural, or social unit enclosed within or as if within foreign territory |
| trickle | to issue or fall in drops |
| mongrel | an individual resulting from the interbreeding of diverse breeds (see breed |
| pine | any of a genus (Pinus of the family Pinaceae, the pine family) of coniferous evergreen trees that have slender elongated needles and include some valuable timber trees and ornamentals |