GRE Word List
PLOY
escapade
The meaning of the word ploy is escapade.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ostensible | intended for display : open to view |
| epicure | one with sensitive and discriminating tastes especially in food or wine |
| vegetate | to lead a passive existence without exertion of body or mind |
| fecundity | fruitful in offspring or vegetation : prolific |
| solder | a metal or metallic alloy used when melted to join metallic surfaces |
| prime | the second of the canonical hours |
| ulcer | a break in skin or mucous membrane with loss of surface tissue, disintegration and necrosis of epithelial tissue, and often pus |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
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| ruse | a wily subterfuge |