GRE Word List
RUSE
a wily subterfuge
The meaning of the word ruse is a wily subterfuge.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inured | to accustom to accept something undesirable |
| retrieve | to locate and bring in (killed or wounded game) |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| plumage | the feathers of a bird |
| impeach | to charge with a crime or misdemeanor |
| spin | to draw out and twist fiber into yarn or thread |
| insouciant | lighthearted unconcern : nonchalance |
| inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |
| monumental | serving as or resembling a monument : massive |
| grandiose | characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor or by absurd exaggeration |