tantamount
equivalent in effect or value to something else
Tantamount in a sentence
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Refusing to testify was tantamount to an admission of guilt in the eyes of the jury.
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Verbal · Text Completion
Critics initially dismissed the composer's late works as merely blank, but later scholars recognized in them a deliberate restraint that concealed considerable technical sophistication.
More GRE words starting with T
understood or implied without being openly stated
habitually reserved and uncommunicative in speech
only loosely relevant; diverging from the main point
perceptible by touch or concrete enough to be grasped
to twist together into a confused or knotted mass
to dull or damage the luster, reputation, or purity of something
needlessly repeating an idea using different words
needless repetition of the same idea in different words
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