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 |
|---|---|
| lank | not well filled out : slender |
| averse | having an active feeling of repugnance, dislike, or distaste |
| apathy | lack of feeling or emotion : impassiveness |
| turbid | thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment |
| commandeer | to compel to perform military service |
| sumptuous | extremely costly, rich, luxurious, or magnificent |
| sterile | failing to bear or incapable of producing fruit or spores |
| virile | having traditionally masculine traits especially to a marked degree |
| edify | to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift |
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |