GRE Word List

RUSE

a wily subterfuge

The meaning of the word ruse is a wily subterfuge.

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WordMeaning
citeto call upon officially or authoritatively to appear (as before a court)
vacillateto waver in mind, will, or feeling : hesitate in choice of opinions or courses
consolidationthe act or process of consolidating : the state of being consolidated
jocosegiven to joking : merry
turbidthick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment
imbueendow
exoticintroduced from another country : not native to the place where found
stratifiedformed, deposited, or arranged in stable layers or strata
sectarianof, relating to, or characteristic of a sect or sectarian
jurisdictionthe power, right, or authority to interpret and apply the law