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 |
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| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| breadth | distance from side to side : width |
| marginal | written or printed in the margin of a page or sheet |
| incidental | being likely to ensue as a chance or minor consequence |
| humdrum | monotonous |
| instigate | to goad or urge forward : provoke |
| epoch | an event or a time marked by an event that begins a new period or development |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| providence | divine guidance or care |
| putative | commonly accepted or supposed |