GRE Word List
PLOY
escapade
The meaning of the word ploy is escapade.
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| mannered | having manners of a specified kind |
| purveyor | one that purveys |
| autopsy | an examination of a body after death to determine the cause of death or the character and extent of changes produced by disease |
| pachyderm | any of various nonruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin |
| pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |
| marred | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| vintner | a wine merchant |
| murky | characterized by a heavy dimness or obscurity caused by or like that caused by overhanging fog or smoke |
| humdrum | monotonous |
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent |