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 |
|---|---|
| purchase | to obtain by paying money or its equivalent : buy |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| loathe | to dislike greatly and often with disgust or intolerance : detest |
| smug | highly self-satisfied |
| makeshift | a usually crude and temporary expedient : substitute |
| confiscate | appropriated by the government : forfeited |
| adjourn | to suspend indefinitely or until a later stated time |
| recondite | difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend : deep |
| sturdy | firmly built or constituted : stout |
| humility | freedom from pride or arrogance : the quality or state of being humble |