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 |
|---|---|
| conjure | to charge or entreat earnestly or solemnly |
| striated | marked with striations or striae |
| corporeal | having, consisting of, or relating to a physical material body: such as |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| assurance | the state of being assured: such as |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| expurgate | to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous |
| larder | a place where food is stored : pantry |
| barrage | a dam placed in a watercourse to increase the depth of water or to divert it into a channel for navigation or irrigation |
| deflect | to turn (something) aside especially from a straight course or fixed direction |