SAT vocabulary
Artifice
Clever or cunning devices or expedients, especially as used to trick or deceive others.
Example
"The magician's seemingly impossible trick was merely an artifice of mirrors and misdirection."
Etymology
From Latin artificium 'craft, skill, artifice', from artifex 'artisan'.
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