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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| censure | a judgment involving condemnation |
| effluvium | an invisible emanation |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| bacchanal | orgy |
| siren | any of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek mythology that lured mariners to destruction by their singing |
| forestall | to exclude, hinder, or prevent (something) by prior occupation or measures |
| pell-mell | in mingled confusion or disorder |
| hazard | a source of danger |
| interim | an intervening time : interval |
| accelerate | to move faster : to gain speed |