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 |
|---|---|
| edify | to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift |
| prod | to thrust a pointed instrument into : prick |
| graphite | a soft black lustrous form of carbon that conducts electricity and is used in lead pencils and electrolytic anodes, as a lubricant, and as a moderator in nuclear reactors |
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |
| disinclination | a preference for avoiding something : slight aversion |
| fuddle | booze |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| stupor | a condition of greatly dulled or completely suspended sense or sensibility |
| apprehensive | viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future |
| abnegation | denial |