GRE Word List
ARTIFICE
clever or artful skill : ingenuity
The meaning of the word artifice is clever or artful skill : ingenuity.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| depravity | a corrupt act or practice |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| scale | an instrument or machine for weighing |
| killjoy | one who spoils the pleasure of others |
| faze | to disturb the composure of : disconcert |
| queer | differing in some way from what is usual or normal : odd |
| enduring | lasting |
| infraction | the act of infringing : violation |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| improvise | to compose, recite, play, or sing extemporaneously |