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  • 31prone — a. 1. Prostrate (with the face downward), recumbent, lying flat. 2. Sloping, inclining, inclined, declivous. 3. Disposed, inclined, tending, bent, apt, propense. 4. Bending forward, inclined, bowed. 5. Ready, eager. 6. Headlong, running downward… …

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  • 32sloping — a. Inclining, slanting, declivous, oblique …

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  • 33oblique — adj 1. slanting, sloping, slated, inclined, tilted, atilt, listing, canting; diagonal, abaxial, pla gihedral, rhomboidal, eater cornered; All Geol. synclinal, anticlinal, anaclinal, cataclinal. 2. askew, skew, aslant, awry, wry, askant, askance,… …

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  • 34prone — adj 1. apt, inclined, tending toward, leaning toward, of a mind to; disposed, predisposed, liable, given, ready, subject, likely, incident, Archaic. propense; open, susceptible, vulnerable. 2. face downward, prostrate, procumbent; laying flat,… …

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  • 35slanting — adj sloping, oblique, slanted, inclined, tilted, atilt; leaning, stooping, canting, listing, diagonal; abaxial, plagihedral, rhomboidal, eater cornered, Brit. wonky, Brit. skew whiff; askew, skew, aslant, awry, wry, askant, asquint; biased,… …

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  • 36declivity —   n. downward slope.    ♦ declivitous,    ♦ declivous, a …

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  • 37acclivous — əˈklīvəs, (ˈ)a|k adjective Etymology: Latin acclivus : sloping upward opposed to declivous …

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  • 38declivent — də̇ˈklīvənt, dēˈ , ˈdeklə̇v adjective Etymology: Latin declivis + English ent : declivous …

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  • 39declinous — [declinous, a. Error for declivous. in Webster; hence in some later Dicts.] …

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