ruse (noun)
21ruse — [ruːz] noun [C] a way of tricking someone Syn: ploy …
22ce|ruse — «SIHR oos, sih ROOS», noun. 1. = white lead. (Cf. ↑white lead) 2. a skin cosmetic containing this substance. ╂[< French céruse, learned borrowing from Latin cērussa, probably < unrecorded Greek kēroûssa waxy < Greek kērós wax] …
23pe|ruse — «puh ROOZ», transitive verb, rused, rus|ing. 1. to read through carefully: »I will show you what to turn over unread and what to peruse (Sir Richard Steele). She perused “Middlemarch”; she was disappointed (Lytton Strachey). 2. to read, now often …
24smoke screen — noun 1. (military) screen consisting of a cloud of smoke that obscures movements • Syn: ↑smokescreen • Topics: ↑military, ↑armed forces, ↑armed services, ↑military machine, ↑war machine …
25Wooden Horse — noun a large hollow wooden figure of a horse (filled with Greek soldiers) left by the Greeks outside Troy during the Trojan War • Syn: ↑Trojan Horse • Regions: ↑Greece, ↑Hellenic Republic, ↑Ellas • Instance Hypernyms: ↑figure …
26lip sync — noun combining audio and video recording in such a way that the sound is perfectly synchronized with the action that produced it; especially synchronizing the movements of a speaker s lips with the sound of his speech • Syn: ↑lip synchronization …
27calculated mistake — noun An intentional error, usually to avoid some worse outcome, especially when done as a ruse …
28bush week — noun An imaginary or symbolic time when simple people from the bush (ie. country areas) come to the city, likely to be preyed on by tricksters there. A question like What is this ndash; bush week? is thus a protest by the speaker against some… …
29artifice — noun a) a crafty but underhanded deception b) a trick played out as an ingenious, but artful, ruse See Also: artificial …
30conspiracy — noun 1) a conspiracy to manipulate the results Syn: plot, scheme, plan, machination, ploy, trick, ruse, subterfuge; informal racket See note at plot 2) conspiracy to commit murder Syn …
