GRE Word List
ARTIFACTS
a usually simple object (such as a tool or ornament) showing human workmanship or modification as distinguished from a natural object
The meaning of the word artifacts is a usually simple object (such as a tool or ornament) showing human workmanship or modification as distinguished from a natural object.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| neophyte | a new convert : proselyte |
| quarry | game |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| convene | to come together in a body |
| levy | the imposition or collection of an assessment |
| appall | to overcome with consternation, shock, or dismay |
| genealogy | an account of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or from older forms |
| swell | to expand (as in size, volume, or numbers) gradually beyond a normal or original limit |
| cursory | rapidly and often superficially performed or produced : hasty |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |