GRE Word List

PLOY

escapade

The meaning of the word ploy is escapade.

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hyperboleextravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones")
grandiloquenta lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language
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idolatrythe worship of a physical object as a god
ligneousof or resembling wood
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piqueto excite or arouse especially by a provocation, challenge, or rebuff