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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mortara sturdy vessel in which material is pounded or rubbed with a pestle
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consequentialof the nature of a secondary result : indirect
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igneousformed by solidification of magma
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viscidhaving an adhesive quality : sticky