GRE Word List
SUBTERFUGE
deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade
The meaning of the word subterfuge is deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incapacitate | to deprive of capacity or natural power : disable |
| sacrilegious | committing or characterized by sacrilege : having or showing a lack of proper respect for a sacred person, place, or object |
| muted | being mute : silent |
| influx | a coming in |
| totem | an object (such as an animal or plant) serving as the emblem of a family or clan and often as a reminder of its ancestry |
| lurid | causing horror or revulsion : gruesome |
| pecuniary | consisting of or measured in money |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| pudding | blood sausage |
| stickler | one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something |