GRE Word List

PLOY

escapade

The meaning of the word ploy is escapade.

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franticemotionally out of control
enlistto secure the support and aid of : employ in advancing an interest
tautologicalinvolving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant
fashionthe prevailing style (as in dress) during a particular time
anvila heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering)
irrefutableimpossible to refute : incontrovertible
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boundfastened by or as if by a band : confined
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harpinga plucked stringed instrument consisting of a resonator, an arched or angled neck that may be supported by a post, and strings of graded length that are perpendicular to the soundboard