GRE Word List
OBVIATE
to anticipate and prevent (something, such as a situation) or make (an action) unnecessary
The meaning of the word obviate is to anticipate and prevent (something, such as a situation) or make (an action) unnecessary.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| propitiate | to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of : appease |
| boisterous | noisily turbulent : rowdy |
| affected | artificial; pretended |
| alloy | the degree of mixture with base metals : fineness |
| sublimate | sublime |
| mosaic | a surface decoration made by inlaying small pieces of variously colored material to form pictures or patterns |
| veracious | truthful |
| compensatory | to be equivalent to : counterbalance |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| piquant | engagingly provocative |