GRE Word List
PLOY
escapade
The meaning of the word ploy is escapade.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| insensate | lacking sense or understanding |
| voyeur | someone who obtains sexual gratification from observing unsuspecting individuals who are partly undressed, naked, or engaged in sexual acts |
| slovenly | untidy especially in personal appearance |
| vertigo | a sensation of motion in which the individual or the individual's surroundings seem to whirl dizzily |
| self-righteous | convinced of one's own righteousness especially in contrast with the actions and beliefs of others : narrow-mindedly moralistic |
| hackneyed | lacking in freshness or originality |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| reserve | to hold in reserve : keep back |
| cadet | a younger brother or son |