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 |
|---|---|
| arcane | known or knowable only to a few people : secret |
| regicide | a person who kills a king |
| verbalize | to express something in words |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| denotation | an act or process of denoting |
| ecliptic | of or relating to the ecliptic or an eclipse |
| forthright | free from ambiguity or evasiveness : going straight to the point |
| noncommittal | giving no clear indication of attitude or feeling |
| tarry | to delay or be tardy in acting or doing |
| effete | no longer fertile |