essential; having superior power and influence
Patient safety is paramount in every medical decision the surgical team makes.
Vocabulary like paramount appears on the Digital SAT in Words-in-Context questions, where you choose the word that fits a passage's meaning and tone. You can also drill this word with vocabulary flashcards.
relieving pain without curing
pale; abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
cure all; (Greek mythology) the goddess of healing
moral story; a short moral story (often with animal characters)
model; systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word
apparent contradiction; (logic) a statement that contradicts itself
perfection; an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept
not intersecting; being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting