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 |
|---|---|
| artifacts | a usually simple object (such as a tool or ornament) showing human workmanship or modification as distinguished from a natural object |
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |
| strew | to spread by scattering |
| institution | an established organization or corporation (such as a bank or university) especially of a public character |
| uproar | a state of commotion, excitement, or violent disturbance |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| alienate | to cause to be estranged : to make unfriendly, hostile, or indifferent especially where attachment formerly existed |
| jaundiced | affected with or as if with jaundice |
| torpedo | a weapon for destroying ships by rupturing their hulls below the waterline: such as |