GRE Word List
PLOY
escapade
The meaning of the word ploy is escapade.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sextant | an instrument for measuring angular distances used especially in navigation to observe altitudes of celestial bodies (as in ascertaining latitude and longitude) |
| beleaguer | besiege |
| touching | capable of arousing emotions of tenderness or compassion |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| sallow | any of several Old World broad-leaved willows (such as Salix caprea) including important sources of charcoal and tanbark |
| salvage | compensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck |
| charlatan | quack |
| esteem | the regard in which one is held |
| physiognomy | the art of discovering temperament and character from outward appearance |
| impolitic | not politic : unwise |