Word of the Week #3- 2/16/2009

Emily Belding

MComm 100w M/W 1:30

Word #3



Word: Circumvent

Source: I read this word in Indigenous Peoples, Ethnic Groups, and the State by David Maybury. It was reading homework for my Anthropology 146 class.

How it was used: Their rights to land and resources are protected by a maze of legislation, but the elites and their political allies regularly find ways to circumvent the laws and to seize or otherwise use tribal lands.

Definition: Circumvent-verb (used with object)

1. to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake

2. to avoid (defeat, failure, unpleasantness, etc.) by artfulness or deception; avoid by anticipating or outwitting: He circumvented capture by anticipating their movements.

3. to surround or encompass, as by stratagem; entrap: to circumvent a body of enemy troops.

My sentence: The animal circumvented it's capture by anticipating the hunter's step.