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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| archives | a place in which public records or historical materials (such as documents) are preserved |
| resound | to become filled with sound : reverberate |
| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |
| exculpate | to clear from alleged fault or guilt |
| truism | an undoubted or self-evident truth |
| swagger | to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner |
| effluvium | an invisible emanation |
| monastic | of or relating to monasteries or to monks or nuns |
| inequity | injustice |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |