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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| diminution | the act, process, or an instance of becoming gradually less (as in size or importance) : the act, process, or an instance of diminishing : decrease |
| virtue | conformity to a standard of right : morality |
| truism | an undoubted or self-evident truth |
| jurisprudence | the science or philosophy of law |
| ordination | the act or an instance of ordaining : the state of being ordained |
| potpourri | a mixture of flowers, herbs, and spices that is usually kept in a jar and used for scent |
| pudding | blood sausage |
| ensue | to strive to attain : pursue |
| acclivity | an ascending slope (as of a hill) |
| bruise | an injury involving rupture of small blood vessels and discoloration without a break in the overlying skin : contusion |