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 |
|---|---|
| skeptic | an adherent or advocate of skepticism |
| eon | an immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time : age |
| regiment | a military unit consisting usually of a number of battalions |
| tout | to make much of : promote |
| auspicious | showing or suggesting that future success is likely : propitious |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| wily | full of wiles : crafty |
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| sphinx-like | enigmatic; mysterious |
| censorious | marked by or given to censure (see censure |