GRE Word List
LEGERDEMAIN
sleight of hand
The meaning of the word legerdemain is sleight of hand.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| stilted | pompous |
| requiem | a mass for the dead |
| deadpan | marked by an impassive matter-of-fact manner, style, or expression |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| lackluster | lacking in sheen, brilliance, or vitality : dull |
| impuissance | weakness |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| interim | an intervening time : interval |
| totter | to move unsteadily : stagger |
| malleable | capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers |