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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| grueling | trying or taxing to the point of exhaustion : punishing |
| requisite | needed for a particular purpose : essential |
| intoxicate | to excite or stupefy by alcohol or a drug especially to the point where physical and mental control is markedly diminished |
| privation | an act or instance of depriving : deprivation |
| protrude | to jut out from the surrounding surface or context |
| headfirst | with the head foremost |
| ciliated | possessing cilia |
| eccentric | deviating from conventional or accepted usage or conduct especially in odd or whimsical ways |
| bode | to indicate (something, such as a future event) by signs : presage |
| illusion | a misleading image presented to the vision : optical illusion |