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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| deluge | an overflowing of the land by water |
| osseous | bony |
| lap | a loose overlapping or hanging panel or flap especially of a garment |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| mar | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| meager | having little flesh : thin |
| verdigris | a green or greenish-blue poisonous pigment resulting from the action of acetic acid on copper and consisting of one or more basic copper acetates |
| predecessor | one that precedes |
| circumspect | careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences : prudent |
| germane | being at once relevant and appropriate : fitting |