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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| deterrent | serving to discourage, prevent, or inhibit : serving to deter |
| graduated | marked with divisions indicating degrees or units of measurement |
| consign | to give over to another's care |
| vestige | a trace, mark, or visible sign left by something (such as an ancient city or a condition or practice) vanished or lost |
| abdicate | to renounce a throne, high office, dignity, or function |
| hazy | made dim or cloudy by or as if by fine dust, smoke, or light vapor in the air : obscured by or as if by haze (see haze |
| denounce | to pronounce especially publicly to be blameworthy or evil |
| daze | to stupefy especially by a blow : stun |
| betroth | to promise to marry |
| derision | the use of ridicule or scorn to show contempt |