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 |
|---|---|
| stultify | to have a dulling or inhibiting effect on |
| compile | to compose out of materials from other documents |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
| daze | to stupefy especially by a blow : stun |
| patois | a dialect other than the standard or literary dialect |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| protagonist | the principal character in a literary work (such as a drama or story) |
| ascendancy | governing or controlling influence : domination |
| license | permission to act |
| consort | associate |