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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qualified | fitted (as by training or experience) for a given purpose : competent |
nubile | of marriageable condition or age |
detain | to hold or keep in or as if in custody |
liquidate | to determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness, damages, or accounts) |
dull | tedious |
aplomb | complete and confident composure or self-assurance : poise |
extol | to praise highly : glorify |
exiguous | excessively scanty : inadequate |
brusque | markedly short and abrupt |
bilious | of or relating to a yellow or greenish fluid that is secreted by the liver and that aids especially in the emulsification and absorption of fats : of or relating to bile (see bile |