Entry:acclivated (adj.)
In context: "...the E.T.A. hilltop overlooking on one side, east, historic Commonwealth Avenue's acclivated migration out of the squalor of Lower Brighton..."
Definition: Not sure - it's a neologism. What do you think? I'd be happy to include user-submitted suggestions.
Other:
SNOOT score: 1
Page:241
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
Definitive Jest is a vocabulary-building and SNOOT-approved word-of-the-day blog centered around David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest.
I assumed it meant something along the lines of "elevated and moving/facing upwards". Perhaps a portmanteau of acclimated and elavated?
ReplyDeleteEssentially describing the street going upwards both in literal incline and also out of squalor.