GRE Word List
LEGERDEMAIN
sleight of hand
The meaning of the word legerdemain is sleight of hand.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fray | a usually disorderly or protracted fight, struggle, or dispute |
| dissonance | lack of agreement |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| acetic | vinegary |
| mawkish | lacking flavor or having an unpleasant taste |
| pragmatist | a practical approach to problems and affairs |
| renovate | to restore to a former better state (as by cleaning, repairing, or rebuilding) |
| gory | covered with gore : bloodstained |
| hazard | a source of danger |
| jocose | given to joking : merry |