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 |
|---|---|
| factitious | produced by humans rather than by natural forces |
| bowdlerize | to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar |
| ciliated | possessing cilia |
| decadence | the process of becoming decadent : the quality or state of being decadent |
| pallid | deficient in color : wan |
| amity | friendship |
| eon | an immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time : age |
| knell | a stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster) |
| lurk | to lie in wait in a place of concealment especially for an evil purpose |
| retaliate | to return like for like |