artifice
[noun]
Synonyms:
- trick, contrivance, device, machination, manoeuvre, stratagem, subterfuge, tactic
- cleverness, ingenuity, inventiveness, skill

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Related Words: ingenuity, inventiveness, originality, adroitness, cleverness, keenness, quickness, shrewdness, adeptness, proficiency, chicane, chicanery, trickery, knavery, rascality, skulduggery, deceit, dissimulation, duplicity, guile

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ar‧ti‧fice /ˈɑːtəfəs, ˈɑːtɪfəs $ ˈɑːr-/ noun formal
[Date: 1600-1700; Language: French; Origin: Latin artificium, from artifex 'skilled worker', from ars ( ⇒ art¹) + facere 'to make']

1. [uncountable] the use of clever tricks to deceive someone Synonym : cunning

2. [countable] a trick used to deceive someone

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