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 |
|---|---|
| erratic | having no fixed course : wandering |
| glut | to flood (the market) with goods so that supply exceeds demand |
| augury | divination from auspices (see auspice |
| antiquity | ancient times |
| entreat | to plead with especially in order to persuade : ask urgently |
| bruise | an injury involving rupture of small blood vessels and discoloration without a break in the overlying skin : contusion |
| decomposition | to separate into constituent parts or elements or into simpler compounds |
| indigent | suffering from extreme poverty : impoverished |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| nirvana | the final beatitude (see beatitude |