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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| inveigle | to win over by wiles : entice |
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| incentive | something that incites or has a tendency to incite to determination or action |
| innocuous | producing no injury : harmless |
| peon | any of various workers in India, Sri Lanka, or Malaysia: such as |
| injurious | inflicting or tending to inflict injury : detrimental |
| lookout | one engaged in keeping watch : watchman |
| indelible | that cannot be removed, washed away, or erased |
| prefatory | of, relating to, or constituting a preface |
| wispy | a small handful (as of hay or straw) |