GRE Word List
PLOY
escapade
The meaning of the word ploy is escapade.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pellucid | admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion |
| braid | to make from braids |
| sedulous | involving or accomplished with careful perseverance |
| oratorio | a lengthy choral work usually of a religious nature consisting chiefly of recitatives, arias, and choruses without action or scenery |
| piscatorial | piscatory |
| homeostasis | a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group |
| relapse | the act or an instance of backsliding, worsening, or subsiding |
| usury | the lending of money with an interest charge for its use |
| resuscitate | to revive from apparent death or from unconsciousness |
| instigate | to goad or urge forward : provoke |