GRE Word List
RUSE
a wily subterfuge
The meaning of the word ruse is a wily subterfuge.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| institution | an established organization or corporation (such as a bank or university) especially of a public character |
| religious | relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity |
| lucre | monetary gain : profit |
| philistine | a native or inhabitant of ancient Philistia |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| shudder | to tremble convulsively : shiver |
| compile | to compose out of materials from other documents |
| dormant | represented on a coat of arms in a lying position with the head on the forepaws |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |