GRE Word List
ARTIFICE
clever or artful skill : ingenuity
The meaning of the word artifice is clever or artful skill : ingenuity.
Random words
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| tumult | disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd usually with uproar and confusion of voices : commotion |
| latent | present and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic |
| dummy | a person who is incapable of speaking |
| kaleidoscope | an instrument containing loose bits of colored material (such as glass or plastic) between two flat plates and two plane mirrors so placed that changes of position of the bits of material are reflected in an endless variety of patterns |
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
| bestial | of or relating to beasts |
| physiological | of or relating to physiology |
| wizened | to become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of aging or of failing vitality |
| polemic | an aggressive attack on or refutation of the opinions or principles of another |
| agape | wide open : gaping |