GRE Word List
LEGERDEMAIN
sleight of hand
The meaning of the word legerdemain is sleight of hand.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| wangle | to resort to trickery or devious methods |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| snip | a small piece that is snipped off |
| smother | to kill by depriving of air |
| animadversion | a critical and usually censorious remark |
| apothecary | one who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes |
| invoke | to petition for help or support |
| disengage | to release from something that engages or involves |
| recession | the act or action of receding : withdrawal |
| random | a haphazard course |