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 |
|---|---|
| mar | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| diversion | the act or an instance of diverting or straying from a course, activity, or use : deviation |
| enjoin | to direct or impose by authoritative order or with urgent admonition |
| scurvy | a disease caused by a lack of vitamin C and characterized by spongy gums, loosening of the teeth, and a bleeding into the skin and mucous membranes |
| codicil | a legal instrument made to modify an earlier will |
| stickler | one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| inquisitive | given to examination or investigation |
| incident | an occurrence of an action or situation that is a separate unit of experience : happening |
| dynamo | generator |