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- pronunciation:
- ar
tih
fihs
- features:
- Word Parts
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
a shrewd or clever trick.
It was a clever ruse, and while others were taken in by this artifice, she was not.- synonyms:
- device, ruse, stratagem, trick
- similar words:
- chicanery, deceit, deception, dodge, maneuver, plot, scheme, subterfuge, wile
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| definition 2: |
inventiveness or ingenuity.
- synonyms:
- cunning, ingenuity, inventiveness
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| related words: |
cheat, device, intrigue, ploy, trap, trick |
The word artifice
contains the following part:
fac, fic, fec, fact, fect
Latin
root
that means make, do
  More about this word part:
This root is also the origin of the suffixes "-fy, -ify, -efy" and "-ification, -efaction".
Example words:
affect, affection, artificial, beneficial, benefit, deficient, effect, efficient, fact, factory, fiction, infect, manufacture, sacrifice, satisfaction, satisfactory, significant, sufficient
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