GRE Word List
MOMENTOUS
having great or lasting importance : consequential
The meaning of the word momentous is having great or lasting importance : consequential.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| contingent | dependent on or conditioned by something else |
| hothead | a hotheaded person |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |
| misanthrope | a person who hates or distrusts humankind |
| cue | the letter q |
| inclined | having inclination, disposition, or tendency |
| consummate | extremely skilled and accomplished |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |