GRE Word List
LEGERDEMAIN
sleight of hand
The meaning of the word legerdemain is sleight of hand.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
| travesty | a debased, distorted, or grossly inferior imitation |
| innocuous | producing no injury : harmless |
| odious | arousing or deserving hatred or repugnance : hateful |
| dapper | neat and trim in appearance |
| scraps | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| incubate | to sit on (eggs) so as to hatch by the warmth of the body |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| parry | to ward off a weapon or blow |
| didactic | designed or intended to teach |