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 |
|---|---|
| silt | loose sedimentary material with rock particles usually ¹/₂₀ millimeter or less in diameter |
| sanction | a formal decree |
| verdigris | a green or greenish-blue poisonous pigment resulting from the action of acetic acid on copper and consisting of one or more basic copper acetates |
| elixir | a substance held capable of changing base metals into gold |
| eccentricity | the quality or state of being eccentric |
| faze | to disturb the composure of : disconcert |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| distill | to let fall, exude, or precipitate (see precipitate |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| chronic | continuing or occurring again and again for a long time |