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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rankle | to cause anger, irritation, or deep bitterness |
| cremate | to subject to cremation |
| plaudit | an act or round of applause |
| equable | marked by lack of variation or change : uniform |
| modish | fashionable |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| compost | a mixture that consists largely of decayed organic matter and is used for fertilizing and conditioning land |
| postmortem | done, occurring, or collected after death |
| soliloquy | the act of talking to oneself |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |