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.
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| fracas | a noisy quarrel : brawl |
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| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| defalcate | deduct |
| fitful | characterized by fits or paroxysms |
| expound | to set forth : state |
| parochial | of or relating to a church parish |
| infiltrate | to enter or become established in gradually or unobtrusively usually for subversive purposes |
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| ulterior | going beyond what is openly said or shown and especially what is proper |