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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| import | to bring from a foreign or external source: such as |
| rebuttal | the act of rebutting especially in a legal suit |
| compliant | ready or disposed to comply : submissive |
| drone | a stingless male bee (as of the honeybee) that has the role of mating with the queen and does not gather nectar or pollen |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| bureaucracy | a body of nonelected government officials |
| nubile | of marriageable condition or age |
| bemoan | to express deep grief or distress over |
| assent | to agree to or approve of something (such as an idea or suggestion) especially after thoughtful consideration : concur |
| placebo | a usually pharmacologically inert preparation prescribed more for the mental relief of the patient than for its actual effect on a disorder |