GRE Word List
RUSE
a wily subterfuge
The meaning of the word ruse is a wily subterfuge.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| qualified | fitted (as by training or experience) for a given purpose : competent |
| mellifluous | having a smooth rich flow |
| reckon | count |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| ventilate | to expose to air and especially to a current of fresh air for purifying, curing, or refreshing |
| subsidy | a grant or gift of money: such as |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| nauseate | to become affected with nausea |
| beholden | being under obligation for a favor or gift : indebted |
| headlong | headfirst |