GRE Word List
RUSE
a wily subterfuge
The meaning of the word ruse is a wily subterfuge.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| concerted | mutually contrived or agreed on |
| acquiesce | to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively |
| commodious | comfortably or conveniently spacious : roomy |
| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
| anthropologist | the science of human beings |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| snuffle | to snuff or sniff usually audibly and repeatedly |
| exhale | to rise or be given off as vapor |
| hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |