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 |
|---|---|
| intoxicate | to excite or stupefy by alcohol or a drug especially to the point where physical and mental control is markedly diminished |
| unassailable | not assailable : not liable to doubt, attack, or question |
| optimist | a person who is inclined to be hopeful and to expect good outcomes : someone who is given to optimism |
| evocative | evoking or tending to evoke an especially emotional response |
| emollient | making soft or supple |
| irksome | tending to irk : tedious |
| prude | a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum |
| jocose | given to joking : merry |
| manumit | to release from slavery |
| obsequious | marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |