GRE Word List
RUSE
a wily subterfuge
The meaning of the word ruse is a wily subterfuge.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| roster | a roll or list of personnel |
| inured | to accustom to accept something undesirable |
| harry | to make a pillaging or destructive raid on : assault |
| lugubrious | mournful |
| isthmus | a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas |
| ascertain | to find out or learn with certainty |
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |
| vendor | one that vends : seller |
| shard | a piece or fragment of a brittle substance |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |