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 |
|---|---|
| rebus | a representation of words or syllables by pictures of objects or by symbols whose names resemble the intended words or syllables in sound |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| throng | a multitude of assembled persons |
| rejoinder | the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication |
| propitious | favorably disposed : benevolent |
| solace | to give comfort to in grief or misfortune : console |
| lithe | easily bent or flexed |
| mimicry | an instance of mimicking |
| haughtiness | blatantly and disdainfully proud : having or showing an attitude of superiority and contempt for people or things perceived to be inferior |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |