GRE Word List
PLOY
escapade
The meaning of the word ploy is escapade.
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|---|---|
| automaton | a mechanism that is relatively self-operating |
| jaunt | a usually short journey or excursion undertaken especially for pleasure |
| deadlock | a state of inaction or neutralization resulting from the opposition of equally powerful uncompromising persons or factions : standstill |
| abbreviate | to make briefer |
| valid | having legal efficacy or force |
| commandeer | to compel to perform military service |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| immutable | not capable of or susceptible to change |
| feebleminded | impaired in intellectual ability : affected with intellectual disability |
| renovate | to restore to a former better state (as by cleaning, repairing, or rebuilding) |