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 |
|---|---|
| disinclination | a preference for avoiding something : slight aversion |
| malapropism | the usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase |
| insolvent | unable to pay debts as they fall due in the usual course of business |
| posthumous | born after the death of the father |
| expropriate | to deprive of possession or proprietary rights |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| misconstrue | to interpret (something, such as a statement or action) wrongly : misinterpret |
| optional | involving an option : not compulsory |
| contrivance | a thing contrived |
| paleontology | a science dealing with the life of past geologic periods as known from fossil remains |