Making New Words Your Own- Lesson 12

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Artifices

Artifices

n. a skill; a clever device; a sly or artful trick; trickery

scrupulous

adj. giving strict attention to what is right or proper; exact and careful

contour

n. the position of parts or elements of something; a shape; an outline

refute

v. to prove that someone or something is false or incorrect; to disprove

deduce

v. to infer by reasoning; to conclude from known facts and principles

captivate

v. to catch the attention of, by beauty, or excellence; to enchant; to charm; to attract

proponent

n. a person who supports a cause or idea; someone who makes a proposition; an advocate

extant

adj. still in existence; not extinct, lost, or destroyed

chicanery

n. to use of clever talk or trickery to deceive or evade

augury

n. the practice of foretelling the future from signs and omens; and omen or a sign