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 |
|---|---|
| atone | to make amends : to provide or serve as reparation or compensation for something bad or unwelcome |
| depreciate | to lower in honor or esteem |
| amphibian | an amphibious organism |
| acrid | sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : irritating |
| communal | of or relating to one or more communes |
| cloister | a monastic establishment |
| unsavory | insipid |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| irrepressible | impossible to repress, restrain, or control |
| wean | to accustom (a young child or animal) to take food otherwise than by nursing |