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declivity

noun as in slope

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Now we were east of the trail, meandering across a treeless declivity with no obvious route at our feet.

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Fires in the region often start in this steep and inaccessible declivity, served by a single main road that meanders alongside the water.

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These were mounted on a metal armature, and the result was a white cube, with a few enigmatic protrusions and a curious declivity capturing the negative space of the fireplace.

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Within a week I’d developed night sweats that caused pools of water to collect in the declivity above my collarbone, and left my hair greasy at the scalp.

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Later, I had screeched to a halt at the lip of a sharp declivity and, unable to find a foothold, simply timberrrrrrrrred into the sagebrush.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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