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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| calumny | a misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| incapacitate | to deprive of capacity or natural power : disable |
| beholden | being under obligation for a favor or gift : indebted |
| rococo | rococo work or style |
| stereotype | to make a stereotype from |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| incontrovertible | not open to question : indisputable |
| transcendent | exceeding usual limits : surpassing |