{"id":3211,"date":"2012-05-15T06:32:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T11:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/?p=3211"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:44:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:44:58","slug":"cheesy-mnemonics-for-gre-vocab-tantamount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/cheesy-mnemonics-for-gre-vocab-tantamount\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheesy Mnemonics for GRE Vocab: Tantamount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mnemonics or mnemonic devices are memory tricks to help us remember things like vocabulary words. However, many mnemonics are pretty cheesy &#8212; often involving the kind of jokes some people call &#8220;groaners.&#8221; For instance&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/tantamount\">Tantamount<\/a> means, &#8220;equivalent, as in value, force, effect, or signification.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The word is often used to say that something is 99.9% as bad as something <i>really<\/i> bad, as in, &#8220;The dictator&#8217;s call to action is tantamount to a declaration of war.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the mnemonic:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;This gymnastics equipment is about as good as the other gymnastics equipment. I would say it&#8217;s tanta-MOUNT.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yikes, that was pretty bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mnemonics or mnemonic devices are memory tricks to help us remember things like vocabulary words. However, many mnemonics are pretty cheesy &#8212; often involving the kind of jokes some people call &#8220;groaners.&#8221; For instance&#8230; Tantamount means, &#8220;equivalent, as in value, force, effect, or signification.&#8221; The word is often used to say that something is 99.9% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":3202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12,13],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-3211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gre-strategies","category-verbal","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7105,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions\/7105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3211"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}