GRE Word List
RUSE
a wily subterfuge
The meaning of the word ruse is a wily subterfuge.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| perdition | eternal damnation |
| entourage | one's attendants or associates |
| lofty | elevated in character and spirit : noble |
| random | a haphazard course |
| contrive | devise |
| battalion | a considerable body of troops organized to act together : army |
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| piquant | engagingly provocative |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| impassable | incapable of being passed, traveled, crossed, or surmounted |