ruse
noun
[ ruːz ]
• an action intended to deceive someone; a trick.
• "Emma tried to think of a ruse to get Paul out of the house"
Similar:
ploy,
stratagem,
tactic,
move,
device,
scheme,
trick,
gambit,
cunning plan,
manoeuvre,
contrivance,
expedient,
dodge,
subterfuge,
machination,
game,
wile,
smokescreen,
red herring,
blind,
the oldest trick in the book,
wheeze,
shift,
Origin:
late Middle English (as a hunting term): from Old French, from ruser ‘use trickery’, earlier ‘drive back’, perhaps based on Latin rursus ‘backwards’.
