| 1. circum fer ence, carry | 5. circum scribe, write, draw |
| 2. circum flex, bend | 6. circum spect, look |
| 3. circum locut ion, speak | 7. circum sta nce, stand |
| 4. circum navig ate, sail | 8. circum vent, come. |
1. Think the circumference in the process of making; carry the crayon around the circle to produce the circumference.
2. A bending around; a wave or bend of the voice embracing both a rise and a fall on the same syllable.
3. The act of speaking in a round about way; particularly a studied indirectness or evasiveness of speech.
4. The act of sailing around; especially the earth or globe.
5. To draw a bounding line round; hence to mark out the limits of.
6. Looking around on all sides; examining carefully.
7. That which attends or relates to (stands around, as it were,) an event, a person or a thing.
8. To circumvent one in any enterprise is to come around in an unexpected way for the purpose of gaining an advantage.
contra, (contro, counter) = against