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 |
|---|---|
| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| wary | marked by keen caution, cunning, and watchfulness especially in detecting and escaping danger |
| partisan | a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person |
| tramp | to walk, tread, or step especially heavily |
| dribble | to issue sporadically and in small bits |
| robust | having or exhibiting strength or vigorous health |
| skulk | to move in a stealthy or furtive manner |
| plausible | superficially fair, reasonable, or valuable but often specious |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |