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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|---|---|
| fulsome | characterized by abundance : copious |
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |
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| despoil | to strip of belongings, possessions, or value : pillage |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |
| aggregate | formed by the collection of units or particles into a body, mass, or amount : collective |
| jeopardize | to expose to danger or risk : imperil |
| indissoluble | not dissoluble |
| reverie | daydream |