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 |
|---|---|
| rake | an implement equipped with projecting prongs to gather material (such as leaves) or for loosening or smoothing the surface of the ground |
| blare | to sound loud and strident |
| stratified | formed, deposited, or arranged in stable layers or strata |
| skulk | to move in a stealthy or furtive manner |
| indite | make up |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| flashy | lacking in substance or flavor : insipid |
| vernal | of, relating to, or occurring in the spring |
| doddering | feeble |