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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| consanguineous | of the same blood or origin |
| foil | to prevent from attaining an end : defeat |
| mnemonic | assisting or intended to assist memory |
| postmortem | done, occurring, or collected after death |
| complacency | self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies |
| outlook | a place offering a view |
| contravene | to go or act contrary to : violate |
| depict | to represent by or as if by a picture |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| forsake | to renounce or turn away from entirely |