enormity

In a sentence

Six example sentences with enormity, each labelled with its topic.

• Only when the ledgers were published did readers grasp the enormity of a scheme that had robbed thousands of pensioners.

  Finance

• The judge spoke about the enormity of betraying a client's trust before handing down the longest sentence available.

  Law

• Visitors leave the museum silent, having read page after page about the enormity of a famine its officials chose to hide.

  History

• Only after the files were released did voters grasp the enormity of a cover-up that had lasted eleven years.

  Politics

• The inspectors' report conveyed the enormity of dumping untreated waste into the river every night for a decade.

  Environment

• The novel's last chapter lets the reader feel the enormity of the brother's betrayal without ever raising its voice.

  Literature

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains enormity. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• aberrant
• links
• stipulate
• constraining
• maximising
• deriving
• cogent
• precipitate
• repudiate
• enumerate
• inconstancy
• empiricism