GRE Word List

LEGERDEMAIN

sleight of hand

The meaning of the word legerdemain is sleight of hand.

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aeriethe nest of a bird on a cliff or a mountaintop
depleteto empty of a principal substance
amnesialoss of memory due usually to brain injury, shock, fatigue, repression, or illness
irretrievablenot retrievable : impossible to regain or recover
kineticof or relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces and energy associated therewith
indigencea level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking
reticentinclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech : reserved
modean arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval
hindrancethe state of being interfered with, held back, or slowed down : the state of being hindered
waylayto lie in wait for or attack (someone) from ambush