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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| mawkish | lacking flavor or having an unpleasant taste |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| congruence | the quality or state of agreeing, coinciding, or being congruent |
| lot | an object used as a counter in determining a question by chance see also throw in one's lot with |
| barrage | a dam placed in a watercourse to increase the depth of water or to divert it into a channel for navigation or irrigation |
| warren | a place legally authorized for keeping small game (such as hare or pheasant) |
| conjugal | of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations : connubial |
| whet | to sharpen by rubbing on or with something (such as a stone) |
| lope | an easy natural gait of a horse resembling a canter |
| hinterlands | a region lying inland from a coast |