acclivity
- n an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
- The donkey must not be abandoned, for upon his back the Democratic hosts ascend the steep acclivity to power, or, to change the figure of speech, he is the pons asinorum over.
- It is situated close to the border of the plain, on an eminence at the top of a steep acclivity between two considerable hills.
- As he looked back at the events, he realized that he was now on the treacherous acclivity of corruption.