GRE Word List
RUSE
a wily subterfuge
The meaning of the word ruse is a wily subterfuge.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tactful | having or showing tact |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| knell | a stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster) |
| versatile | embracing a variety of subjects, fields, or skills |
| obloquy | a strongly condemnatory utterance : abusive language |
| distract | to draw or direct (something, such as someone's attention) to a different object or in different directions at the same time |
| limp | to walk lamely |
| unique | being the only one : sole |
| dumbfound | to confound (see confound |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |