GRE Word List
ARTIFICE
clever or artful skill : ingenuity
The meaning of the word artifice is clever or artful skill : ingenuity.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| suture | a strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| amass | to collect for oneself : accumulate |
| intimate | marked by a warm friendship developing through long association |
| mendicant | beggar |
| putrefy | to make putrid |
| makeshift | a usually crude and temporary expedient : substitute |
| unanimity | the quality or state of being unanimous |
| cumbersome | unwieldy because of heaviness and bulk |
| clamor | noisy shouting |