GRE Word List
RUSE
a wily subterfuge
The meaning of the word ruse is a wily subterfuge.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| malapropos | in an inappropriate or inopportune way |
| fulcrum | prop |
| amiable | friendly, sociable, and congenial |
| tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |
| militant | engaged in warfare or combat : fighting |
| disgruntle | to make ill-humored or discontented |
| hummock | a rounded knoll or hillock |
| deflect | to turn (something) aside especially from a straight course or fixed direction |
| devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |
| expostulation | an act or an instance of expostulating |