GRE Word List
RUSE
a wily subterfuge
The meaning of the word ruse is a wily subterfuge.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| camp | a place usually away from urban areas where tents or simple buildings (such as cabins) are erected for shelter or for temporary residence (as for laborers, prisoners, or vacationers) |
| mute | unable to speak : lacking the power of speech |
| terrestrial | of or relating to the earth or its inhabitants |
| erode | to diminish or destroy by degrees: |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| obstetrician | a physician specializing in obstetrics |
| momentum | a property (see property |
| remorse | a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs : self-reproach |
| idle | not occupied or employed: such as |
| eugenic | relating to or fitted for the production of good offspring |