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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| willful | obstinately and often perversely self-willed |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| traduce | to expose to shame or blame by means of falsehood and misrepresentation |
| squander | to spend extravagantly or foolishly : dissipate |
| nomenclature | name |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| friction | the rubbing of one body against another |
| unction | the act of anointing as a rite of consecration or healing |
| gloat | to observe or think about something with triumphant and often malicious satisfaction, gratification, or delight |
| calorific | caloric |