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 |
|---|---|
| tenuous | having little substance or strength : flimsy |
| stickler | one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something |
| incorporate | to unite or work into something already existent so as to form an indistinguishable whole |
| automaton | a mechanism that is relatively self-operating |
| anneal | to heat and then cool (a material, such as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle |
| belabor | to attack verbally |
| arbitrary | existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will |
| agog | full of intense interest or excitement : eager |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| corollary | a proposition (see proposition |