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 |
|---|---|
| run-down | an item-by-item report or review : summary |
| doldrums | a spell of listlessness or despondency |
| suspend | to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function |
| plummet | to fall perpendicularly |
| exegesis | exposition |
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |
| politic | political |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| pretension | an allegation of doubtful value : pretext |
| eclectic | composed of elements drawn from various sources |