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 |
|---|---|
| outspoken | direct and open in speech or expression : frank |
| magistrate | an official entrusted with administration of the laws: such as |
| apologist | someone who speaks or writes in defense of someone or something that is typically controversial, unpopular, or subject to criticism |
| buccaneer | any of the freebooters preying on Spanish ships and settlements especially in 17th century West Indies |
| fleck | streak |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| privation | an act or instance of depriving : deprivation |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |
| graphite | a soft black lustrous form of carbon that conducts electricity and is used in lead pencils and electrolytic anodes, as a lubricant, and as a moderator in nuclear reactors |