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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| scrappy | consisting of scraps |
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| incarcerate | to put in prison |
| perfidious | of, relating to, or characterized by perfidy |
| abridge | to shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense : condense |
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