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 |
|---|---|
| igneous | formed by solidification of magma |
| bugaboo | an imaginary object of fear |
| dissipate | to break up and drive off |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| mortician | undertaker |
| extrinsic | not forming part of or belonging to a thing : extraneous |
| facsimile | an exact copy |
| transparent | having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid |
| unravel | to disengage or separate the threads of : disentangle |