GRE Word List

PLOY

escapade

The meaning of the word ploy is escapade.

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vantagea position giving a strategic advantage, commanding perspective, or comprehensive view
swarma great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere
tawdrycheap and gaudy in appearance or quality
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fanciedimagined or believed to be true or real
perorationthe concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration
mangleto injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing