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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| trough | a long shallow often V-shaped receptacle for the drinking water or feed of domestic animals |
| deflect | to turn (something) aside especially from a straight course or fixed direction |
| scoff | an expression of scorn, derision, or contempt : gibe |
| gnarled | full of knots or gnarls : knotty |
| pterodactyl | any of various pterosaurs (suborder Pterodactyloidea) of the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous having a rudimentary tail and a beak with reduced dentition |
| genre | a category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| loll | to hang loosely or laxly : droop |
| provender | dry food for domestic animals : feed |