GRE Word List
STRATAGEM
an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy
The meaning of the word stratagem is an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bestow | to put to use : apply |
| prevaricate | to deviate from the truth : equivocate |
| reiterate | to state or do over again or repeatedly sometimes with wearying effect |
| reminiscence | apprehension of a Platonic idea as if it had been known in a previous existence |
| premonition | previous notice or warning : forewarning |
| transparent | having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid |
| contaminate | to soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association |
| vagrant | one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support |
| plaster | a medicated or protective dressing that consists of a film (as of cloth or plastic) spread with a usually medicated substance |
| cumulative | increasing by successive additions |