GRE Word List
RUSE
a wily subterfuge
The meaning of the word ruse is a wily subterfuge.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| chore | the regular or daily light work of a household or farm |
| incrustation | a crust or hard coating |
| revert | to come or go back (as to a former condition, period, or subject) |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |
| dummy | a person who is incapable of speaking |
| decadence | the process of becoming decadent : the quality or state of being decadent |
| invoke | to petition for help or support |
| check | to inspect, examine, or look at appraisingly or appreciatively |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| ponderous | of very great weight |