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subterfuge The conservatives' subterfuge of funding a liberal third-party candidate in order to take votes away from the main liberal candidate almost worked that year. ˈsəbtərfˌjuʤ

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(1) A trick designed to help conceal, escape, or evade. (2) A deceptive trick. With its “flee” root, the Latin verb subterfugere meant “to escape or avoid.” Thus, a subterfuge is a way of escaping blame, embarrassment, inconvenience—or even prison—by tricky means. The life of spies consists of an endless series of subterfuges. In the more everyday world, putting words like “heart-healthy” on junk-food packaging is a subterfuge to trick unwary shoppers. And getting a friend to call about an “emergency” in order to get out of an evening engagement is about the oldest subterfuge in the book

word	subterfuge
definition	(1) A trick designed to help conceal, escape, or evade. (2) A deceptive trick.
eg_sentence	The conservatives' subterfuge of funding a liberal third-party candidate in order to take votes away from the main liberal candidate almost worked that year.
explanation	With its “flee” root, the Latin verb subterfugere meant “to escape or avoid.” Thus, a subterfuge is a way of escaping blame, embarrassment, inconvenience—or even prison—by tricky means. The life of spies consists of an endless series of subterfuges. In the more everyday world, putting words like “heart-healthy” on junk-food packaging is a subterfuge to trick unwary shoppers. And getting a friend to call about an “emergency” in order to get out of an evening engagement is about the oldest subterfuge in the book
IPA	ˈsəbtərfˌjuʤ

Subterfuge Trick Liberal Candidate Order Designed Conceal Escape