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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| bound | fastened by or as if by a band : confined |
| phlegmatic | resembling, consisting of, or producing the humor phlegm |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| nova | a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years |
| disapprobation | the act or state of disapproving : the state of being disapproved : condemnation |
| curb | an edging (as of concrete) built along a street to form part of a gutter |
| peremptory | putting an end to or precluding a right of action, debate, or delay |
| parameter | an arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (such as a family of curves) |
| besmirch | to cause harm or damage to the purity, luster, or beauty of (something) : sully |
| prevalent | generally or widely accepted, practiced, or favored : widespread |