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 |
|---|---|
| rife | prevalent especially to an increasing degree |
| animadversion | a critical and usually censorious remark |
| unilateral | done or undertaken by one person or party |
| rag | a waste piece of cloth |
| ethereal | of or relating to the regions beyond the earth |
| cacophonous | marked by cacophony : harsh-sounding |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| negligible | so small or unimportant or of so little consequence as to warrant little or no attention : trifling |
| metallurgical | the science and technology of metals |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |