GRE Word List
RUSE
a wily subterfuge
The meaning of the word ruse is a wily subterfuge.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| indecisive | marked by or prone to indecision : irresolute |
| amicable | characterized by friendly goodwill : peaceable |
| precise | exactly or sharply defined or stated |
| intelligentsia | intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite |
| propagate | to cause to continue or increase by sexual or asexual reproduction |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| bedizen | to dress or adorn gaudily |
| dwindle | to become steadily less : shrink |
| exigency | that which is required in a particular situation |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |