GRE Word List
CIRCUMVENT
to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem
The meaning of the word circumvent is to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |
| pith | a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage |
| decry | to depreciate (something, such as a coin) officially or publicly |
| fracas | a noisy quarrel : brawl |
| inviolable | secure from violation or profanation |
| compile | to compose out of materials from other documents |
| miscellany | separate writings collected in one volume |
| ingenious | having or showing an unusual aptitude for discovering, inventing, or contriving |
| wrinkle | a small ridge or furrow especially when formed on a surface by the shrinking or contraction of a smooth substance : crease |