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Message: [QUOTE="Improviser, post: 4308450, member: 10683"] The prefix [I]circum[/I] means around so if you circumvent something, you are going around it, or avoiding it. Like circumventing an issue or a problem or a reef to avoid a collision. No, circumnavigating is not the best word to use in the above case, though with the word circumnavigating, you are navigating around the obstacle technically. When you circumnavigate, by design you are going [B]around [/B]a land, island, whatever. So the around part of [I]circum [/I]still has validity. Just my 2 cents. [/QUOTE]