GRE Word List

RUSE

a wily subterfuge

The meaning of the word ruse is a wily subterfuge.

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campa place usually away from urban areas where tents or simple buildings (such as cabins) are erected for shelter or for temporary residence (as for laborers, prisoners, or vacationers)
muteunable to speak : lacking the power of speech
terrestrialof or relating to the earth or its inhabitants
erodeto diminish or destroy by degrees:
tundraa level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs
obstetriciana physician specializing in obstetrics
momentuma property (see property
remorsea gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs : self-reproach
idlenot occupied or employed: such as
eugenicrelating to or fitted for the production of good offspring