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 |
|---|---|
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
| transient | passing especially quickly into and out of existence : transitory |
| appease | pacify |
| simper | to smile in a silly, affected, or ingratiating manner |
| peddle | to travel about with wares for sale |
| contrive | devise |
| inamorata | a woman with whom one is in love or has intimate relations |
| refectory | a dining hall (as in a monastery or college) |
| bar | a straight piece (as of wood or metal) that is longer than it is wide and has any of various uses (as for a lever, support, barrier, or fastening) |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |