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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| regeneration | an act or the process of regenerating : the state of being regenerated |
| ratiocination | the process of exact thinking : reasoning |
| knave | a tricky deceitful fellow |
| petulant | insolent or rude in speech or behavior |
| wring | to squeeze or twist especially so as to make dry or to extract moisture or liquid |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| vendetta | blood feud |
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |