obvious

In a sentence

Six example sentences with obvious, each labelled with its topic.

• The puzzle looks impossible until you notice the mirror, and then the solution is obvious enough to feel unfair.

  Gaming

• With the center hurt, the obvious move was to play small, and every reporter in the room said so.

  Basketball

• The error is obvious once the print dries: the horizon tilts, and no amount of framing hides it.

  Photography

• The result seems obvious in hindsight, yet three labs had looked at the same data without seeing it.

  Science

• The obvious fix for a flat loaf is more yeast, but the real cause was water that was far too hot.

  Cooking

• The twist is obvious by chapter four, and the pleasure lies in watching the narrator miss it.

  Literature

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains obvious. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• domain
• option
• motivate
• mode
• maintenance
• communications
• expose
• funded
• depressing
• require
• survival
• mutual