Antonym: descent. Similar words: nascent, scent, senescent, adolescent, phosphorescent, ascetic, ascertain, scene. Meaning: [-nt] n. 1. an upward slope or grade (as in a road) 2. a movement upward 3. the act of changing location in an upward direction.
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61. After my poor freshman year, my grades started their ascent.
62. And the dramatic ascent, though interrupted by savage relapses, is both exciting and moving.
63. Tony Mitchell made a rapid second ascent to keep his reputation as the man who has done everything.
64. He did not try to dissuade the party from their ascent, but he did insist on loaning Miss Fergusson a pistol.
65. This final stretch, a 4, 000-foot ascent over 13 winding miles, is by far the most daunting.
66. I finned madly for the surface, and was told off very severely for making an ascent like a pricked balloon.
67. The Doom Diver rips through the clouds like a bullet until he reaches the pinnacle of his ascent.
68. From here to the top was a steep ascent of some five hundred yards, covered with large rocks and fallen timber.
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69. Pat drives up to it and begins a vertical ascent.
70. Its first ascent in 1882 saw the start of the escalation of climbing standards in no uncertain manner.
71. Our ascent begins along a dry wash etched into solid stone.
72. The account of his stay in Naples includes a visit to Pompeii and the ascent of Vesuvius.
73. Their ascent, by an intricate route on the south-east flank, came only after prolonged and persistent effort.
74. The nameless one waited outside, its outline blurred by the slow ascent of steam from its clothes.
75. There was only I m of floor space in front of the ascent engine cover.
76. He called back as he began his ascent.
77. The old man had difficulty climbing the rapid ascent.
78. His own career continues its inexorable ascent.
79. The steepness of the slope forbade ascent.
80. the first ascent of Mount Everest.
81. They made a successful ascent of the mountain.
82. For many gladiators that was their last ascent ever.
83. Hot and perspiring, he toiled up the dusty ascent.
84. Conserve your energy for the ascent to the summit.
85. Five, skillful top and bottom ascent, low block steady pass, midway don't change to block, the ascending grade defends to turn off, go down slope absolute prohibitory for nothing block a skidding.
86. This Spring Equinox is a joyous time in the ascent of Earth.
87. The cause of his death was determined to be drowning due to air embolism, rapid ascent and insufficient air.
88. The Dhaulagiri disaster comes as Nepal held three-day celebrations in Kathmandu, Pokhara and Baglung to mark the first ascent of the milky white peak May 13, 1960 by an Austrian-Swiss expedition.
89. has launched in 2007 a new model – Vertu Ascent Ferrari 1947 Limited Edition.
90. Such an ascent is enough to evoke concerns — both paranoid and justified.
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