GRE Word List
RUSE
a wily subterfuge
The meaning of the word ruse is a wily subterfuge.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vestige | a trace, mark, or visible sign left by something (such as an ancient city or a condition or practice) vanished or lost |
| acerbity | the quality of being acerbic |
| amicable | characterized by friendly goodwill : peaceable |
| whine | to utter a high-pitched plaintive or distressed cry |
| enrapture | to fill with delight |
| throes | pang |
| irksome | tending to irk : tedious |
| ciliated | possessing cilia |
| isthmus | a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |