GRE Word List
RUSE
a wily subterfuge
The meaning of the word ruse is a wily subterfuge.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |
| ensue | to strive to attain : pursue |
| frenzied | feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance |
| inconsequential | of no significance : unimportant |
| obliterate | to remove utterly from recognition or memory |
| quorum | a select group |
| hovel | an open shed or shelter |
| ramble | to move aimlessly from place to place |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| temporal | of or relating to time as opposed to eternity |