rise
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Academic vocabulary
Regularly used in writing and speech
Simple pronunciation
Analysis:
- • Academic vocabulary
- • Latin or Greek origin pattern
1. To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
2. To increase in value or standing.
3. To begin; to develop.
4. To go up; to ascend; to climb.
"to rise a hill"
5. To cause to go up or ascend.
"to rise a fish, or cause it to come to the surface of the water"
6. To retire; to give up a siege.
7. To come; to offer itself.
8. To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; said of a form.
Synonyms
Source: en.wiktionary.org
rise
Word Statistics
Academic vocabulary
Regularly used in writing and speech
Simple pronunciation
Analysis:
- • Academic vocabulary
- • Latin or Greek origin pattern
1. The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
"Exercise is usually accompanied by a temporary rise in blood pressure."
2. The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
"The rise of the feminists."
3. An increase (in a quantity, price, etc).
4. The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
"The rise of his pants was so low that his tailbone was exposed."
5. An increase in someone's pay rate; a raise (US).
"The governor just gave me a rise of two pound six."
6. A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
7. An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
8. An angry reaction.
"I knew that would get a rise out of him."
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≠ Antonyms
Source: en.wiktionary.org
rise
Word Statistics
Academic vocabulary
Regularly used in writing and speech
Simple pronunciation
Analysis:
- • Academic vocabulary
- • Latin or Greek origin pattern
1. (now chiefly) A twig or stick.
2. A bobbin or spool.
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