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 |
|---|---|
| adherent | one who adheres to something: such as |
| precinct | a part of a territory with definite bounds or functions often established for administrative purposes : district |
| chasten | to correct by punishment or suffering : discipline |
| recant | to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| antithesis | the direct opposite |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| rue | to feel penitence, remorse, or regret for |
| jurisdiction | the power, right, or authority to interpret and apply the law |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |