GRE Word List
TANTAMOUNT
equivalent in value, significance, or effect
The meaning of the word tantamount is equivalent in value, significance, or effect.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rectitude | the quality or state of being straight |
| accost | to approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way |
| privation | an act or instance of depriving : deprivation |
| nubile | of marriageable condition or age |
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |
| resound | to become filled with sound : reverberate |
| sycophant | a servile self-seeking flatterer |
| lap | a loose overlapping or hanging panel or flap especially of a garment |
| placid | serenely free of interruption or disturbance |
| banal | lacking originality, freshness, or novelty : trite |