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 |
|---|---|
| vestige | a trace, mark, or visible sign left by something (such as an ancient city or a condition or practice) vanished or lost |
| recess | the action of receding : recession |
| frolicsome | full of gaiety : playful |
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |
| philanderer | a man who has sexual relations with many women |
| repugnance | the quality or fact of being contradictory or inconsistent |
| hone | to sharpen or smooth with a whetstone |
| trite | hackneyed or boring from much use : not fresh or original |
| bucolic | of or relating to shepherds or herdsmen : pastoral |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |