GRE Word List
LEGERDEMAIN
sleight of hand
The meaning of the word legerdemain is sleight of hand.
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| reprise | a musical repetition: |
| granary | a storehouse for threshed grain |
| self-indulgence | excessive or unrestrained gratification of one's own appetites, desires, or whims |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| upshot | the final result : outcome |
| incapacitate | to deprive of capacity or natural power : disable |
| antediluvian | of or relating to the period before the flood described in the Bible |
| levy | the imposition or collection of an assessment |
| adage | a saying often in metaphorical form that typically embodies a common observation |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |