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 |
|---|---|
| prologue | the preface or introduction to a literary work |
| hedonist | a person who is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure : someone who practices hedonism |
| clandestine | marked by, held in, or conducted with secrecy : surreptitious |
| mire | wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh) |
| fiend | devil |
| insubstantial | not substantial: such as |
| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| precursor | one that precedes and indicates the approach of another |
| acoustics | a science that deals with the production, control, transmission, reception, and effects of sound |