Prevent ( page 284 ).
Questions.
1. What is the original meaning of prevent? 2. What word is now commonly used in that sense? 3. What is the meaning of obviate? preclude? 4. How is prevent at present used?
Examples.
The contrary supposition is obviously ——.
When the Siberian Pacific Railway is finished, what is there to —— Russia from annexing nearly the whole of China?
There appears to be no way to —— the difficulty.