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 |
|---|---|
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| waft | to move or go lightly on or as if on a buoyant medium |
| insurgent | a person who revolts against civil authority or an established government |
| abridge | to shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense : condense |
| fray | a usually disorderly or protracted fight, struggle, or dispute |
| contempt | the act of despising : the state of mind of one who despises : disdain |
| winsome | generally pleasing and engaging often because of a childlike charm and innocence |
| impute | to lay the responsibility or blame for (something) often falsely or unjustly |
| perverse | turned away from what is right or good : corrupt |
| censure | a judgment involving condemnation |