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 |
|---|---|
| umbrage | a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult |
| faculty | ability |
| fluted | having or marked by grooves |
| physiognomy | the art of discovering temperament and character from outward appearance |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| consign | to give over to another's care |
| amorous | strongly moved by love and especially sexual love |
| moratorium | a legally authorized period of delay in the performance of a legal obligation or the payment of a debt |
| self-indulgence | excessive or unrestrained gratification of one's own appetites, desires, or whims |