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.
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| bate | to reduce the force or intensity of : restrain |
| jostle | to come in contact or into collision |
| braggadocio | empty boasting |
| exult | to be extremely joyful : rejoice |
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
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| eugenic | relating to or fitted for the production of good offspring |
| palpable | capable of being touched or felt : tangible |
| wrongheaded | stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles |