GRE Word List
TANTAMOUNT
equivalent in value, significance, or effect
The meaning of the word tantamount is equivalent in value, significance, or effect.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| outstrip | to go faster or farther than |
| voluble | easily rolling or turning : rotating |
| shed | to rid oneself of temporarily or permanently as superfluous or unwanted |
| outcast | one that is cast out or refused acceptance (as by society) : pariah |
| slander | to utter slander against : defame |
| magnitude | great size or extent |
| 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 |
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |
| hybrid | an offspring of two animals or plants of different subspecies, breeds, varieties, species, or genera |
| glacial | suggestive of ice: such as |