paramount vs tantamount :

paramount or tantamount

“Paramount” means “best,” “top.” Think of Paramount Pictures’ trademark of a majestic mountain peak encircled with stars.“Tantamount” means “equivalent.”“The committee’s paramount concern is to get at the truth; your continued insistence that you don’t remember any of the meetings you attended is tantamount to a confession of incompetence.”

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Definitions

  • s  having superior power and influence

  • s  being essentially equal to something
    his statement was tantamount to an admission of guilt
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