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 |
|---|---|
| vulpine | of, relating to, or resembling a fox |
| abscission | the act or process of cutting off : removal |
| malediction | curse |
| palatial | of, relating to, or being a palace |
| grandeur | the quality or state of being grand : magnificence |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| surrogate | one appointed to act in place of another : deputy |
| quintessence | the fifth and highest element in ancient and medieval philosophy that permeates all nature and is the substance composing the celestial bodies |
| pose | to set forth or offer for attention or consideration |
| penchant | a strong and continued inclination |