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Legerdemain

A

Sleight of hands (magic as performed by a megician); trickery or deception

Synonym: prestidigitation
Related word: thaumaturgy - working of miracle

Legerdemain - French - meaning light of hands

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Diaphanous

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Very sheer, fine, translucent

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Imbue

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Permeate or saturate, as dye in a fabric; influence throughout

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Posit

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Presume, suggest, put forward an idea

We pose a question but we posit an idea

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Assuage

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Make milder, relieve; soothe, pacify, or calm

Placate, mollify, appease

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Aspersions

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Damaging remarks, defamation, slander

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Irascible

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Irritable, easily angered

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Slake

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Satisfy thirst, cool, or refresh; make less active

Slake is related to slack (loose, negligent, lazy, weak)

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Leery of

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Suspicious or wary

Ex. You should be leery of any business opportunity that requires a startup fee.

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Supplant

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Take the place of, displace through sneaky tactics (to replace)

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Gambol

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Frolic; skip or leap playfully

Gambol comes from the Latin “gamba” a horse’s leg

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Truce

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An agreement between enemies

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Fraught

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Filled with; likely to result in something undesirable

Ex. Marketing a new product is fraught with danger.

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Strut

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A structural support or brace

Related words: bolster, fortify, buttress

To strut is to walk in a showy way, like in a fashion show.

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Quibble

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Make trivial arguments or criticisms, find faults in a petty way

This word is often associated with lawyers

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Baying

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Howling in a deep way, like a wolf

Ex. The lonely dog bayed all night.

When a person is at bay or brought to bay, that means he is in a captured position, powerless and unable to flee

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Vitriol

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Something highly caustic, such as criticism
Ex. After another embarrassing loss, the team’s shortstop was full of vitriol for the coach who had lead them to the worst season in history.

Related words: caustic, acrimony.

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Grandstand

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Perform showily an attempt to impress onlookers.

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Hand-wringing

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Grasping, squeezing of hands as an expression of nervousness, guilt; extend debate over what to do about an issue.

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Goad

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Spur on, stimulate, encourage; urge on (as cattle) with a pointed or electrically charged stick

Synonym: prod

Goad means to peer-pressure

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Discordant

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Harsh or inharmonious in sound ; disagreeing, incongruous

Related words: dissonance

The opposite of discord is accord

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Credulous

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Gullible; prone to believing or trusting too easily

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Bygone

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Past, former

Bygone days.

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Prolix

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Excessively long and wordy (of a person, piece or writing).

Ex. She is incredible verbose. She tells biting, prolix stories.

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Belie

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Contradict or misrepresent

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Fulminate

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Attack verbally in a vehement way; explode, detonate

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Winnow

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Sift (examen), analyze critically, separate useful part from worthless part

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Recrudescent

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Revival, breaking out into renewed activity

Ex. Recrudescence of his psoriasis came back at the worst possible time.

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Distaff

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Female; related to the maternal side of the family

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Aloof

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Distant physically or emotionally; reserved; indifferent

Dogs are affable while cats are aloof.

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Ingrate

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Ungrateful person

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Lassitude

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Lazy indifference; tiredness, weariness

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Blithe

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Joyous, merry; excessively carefree

Blithe can be positive or negative.

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Attenuate

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Weaken or thin out

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Milieu

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Environment, atmosphere;the environmental setting in which something happens or develops

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Penchant for

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He has penchant for adventure sports.

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