Chapter 8 She's Crafty

267722071	astute	shrewd; clever Ex: Kevin is financially _____; he never falls for the tricks that credit card companies play.
267722072	clandestine	secretive Ex: The spies planned a ____ maneuver that depended on its secrecy to work.
267722073	coup	a brilliantly executed plan Ex: It was quite a ____ when I talked the salesperson into selling me this valuable cuckoo clock for five dollars.
267722074	disingenuous	not straightforward; crafty Ex: Mr. Gelman was rather _______; although he seemed to be simply asking about your health, he was really trying to figure out why you'd been absent.
267722075	ruse	a crafty tick Ex: The offer of a free cruise was merely a ____ to get people to listen to their sales pitch.
267722076	stratagem	a clever trick used to deceive or outwit Ex: Planting microphones in the gangster's home was a clever, but illegal, _______.
267722077	surreptitiously	done by secretive means Ex: Matt drank the cough syrup _______ because he didn't want anyone to know that he was sick.
267722078	wary	on guard Ex: My father becomes ____ whenever a salesman calls him on the phone; he knows that many crooks use the phone so that they can't be changed with mail fraud.
267722079	wily	cunning Ex: Each year, a new batch of ____ campers devised ways to torture the cabin leader.