GRE Word List
MOMENTOUS
having great or lasting importance : consequential
The meaning of the word momentous is having great or lasting importance : consequential.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| correlation | the state or relation of being correlated |
| parley | to speak with another : confer |
| mealymouthed | not plain and straightforward : devious |
| irksome | tending to irk : tedious |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |
| accretion | the process of growth or enlargement by a gradual buildup: such as |
| rarefied | being less dense |
| surfeit | an overabundant supply : excess |