It's Merriam Webster's word of the day for April 11th.

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You're built to win it. Today's word is subterfuge, spelled S-U-B-T-R-F-U-G-E. Subterfuge is a noun.

It's a formal word that refers to the use of tricks to hide, avoid, or get something.

Here's the word used in a sentence from the New Yorker by Margaret Atwood.

Despite her difficult childhood, Mavis Galant persevered through grit, bloody-mindedness,

and absence of self-pity, and an ironic sense of humor. Lunch with her was

always hilarious and often horrifying. The tales she told about her life exceeded in unlikely

gruesomeness, even her own fiction. She certainly had the cold eye that Yates recommended for

writers, and she saw through subterfuge,

no matter who was trying it on. Though the word subterfuge is a synonym of deception, fraud,

double-dealing, and trickery, there's nothing tricky about the words etymology.

English borrowed the word with its meaning from the late Latin noun,

Subterfugium, which in turn comes from the Latin verb Subterfugee, meaning to escape or evade.

That word combines the prefix Subter, meaning secretly,

from the adverb Subter, meaning secretly, from the adverb subterre, meaning underneath,

with the verb fugere, which means to flee, and which is also the source of words such as fugitive

and refuge, among others. With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.

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