This week we continue our vocabulary-building series, “The Closing Word.” Each week we provide a new word to help build your vocabulary and show you an example of how to use it.
This week’s closing word:
declivity
Pronounced: (dih-KLIV-ih-tee)
Noun:
a downward slope or bend
From Vocabulary.com: “The word declivity comes from the Latin words de, which means “down,” and clivus, which means “slope.” If you’re at the bottom of the hill looking up, you’ll see the opposite of a declivity. From that position you’ll be looking at an acclivity, an upward slope.”
Example:
“Fortunately, the lot’s natural declivity kept the water from settling around the home’s foundation.”
