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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sleight of hand |
| Synonyms: | artfulness, chicanery, conjuring, craftiness, cunning, deceit, deception, hocus-pocus, manipulation, trickery |
| Main Entry: | hocus-pocus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sleight of hand |
| Synonyms: | abracadabra, abracadabra, artifice, cant, chant, charm, cheating, chicanery, conjuring, deceit, deception, deception, delusion, flimflam, fraud, gibberish, gobbledegook, hoax, hocus, humbug, imposture, incantation, jargon, juggling, legerdemain, magic, magic, magic words, monkey business, mumbo jumbo, mumbo jumbo, mummery, mystification, nonsense, occultism, open sesame, rigmarole, sleight of hand, smoke and mirrors, spell, swindle, trick, trickery |
| Antonyms: | reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | magic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | supernatural power; appearance |
| Synonyms: | alchemy, allurement, astrology, augury, bewitchment, black art, conjuring, conjury, devilry, diabolism, divination, enchantment, exorcism, fascination, foreboding, fortune-telling, hocuspocus, horoscopy, illusion, incantation, legerdemain, magnetism, necromancy, occultism, of impossible feats by tricks abracadabra, power, prediction, presage, prestidigitation, prophecy, rune, sleight of hand, soothsaying, sorcery, sortilege, spell, superstition, taboo, thaumaturgy, trickery, voodoo, voodooism, witchcraft, wizardry |
| Main Entry: | dirty pool |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unfair or dishonest conduct |
| Synonyms: | conjuration, dirty game, dirty politics, dirty tricks, dirty work, escamotage, foul play, jugglery, legerdemain, mudslinging, prestidigitation, sleight of hand, smoke and mirrors, trickery |
| Main Entry: | smoke and mirrors |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conjuring trick |
| Synonyms: | artful deception, crap, flimflam, hokum, legerdemain, sleight of hand, snow job |
| Main Entry: | juggling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | throwing and catching |
| Synonyms: | legerdemain, prestidigitation, tour de force |
| Main Entry: | sleight of hand |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deceptive skill |
| Synonyms: | chicanery, conjuration, deceit, deception, double-dealing, escamotage, hocus-pocus, legerdemain, magic, prestidigitation, smoke and mirrors, trickery |
| Main Entry: | prestidigitation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | magic |
| Synonyms: | abracadabra, alchemy, allurement, astrology, augury, bewitchment, black art, conjuration, conjuring, conjury, devilry, diabolism, divination, enchantment, exorcism, fascination, foreboding, fortune-telling, hocuspocus, horoscopy, illusion, incantation, legerdemain, magnetism, necromancy, occultism, power, prediction, presage, prophecy, rune, sleight of hand, soothsaying, sorcery, sortilege, spell, superstition, taboo*, thaumaturgy, trickery, voodoo, voodooism, witchcraft, wizardry |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | thaumaturgy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | magic |
| Synonyms: | abracadabra, alchemy, allurement, astrology, augury, bewitchment, black art, conjuration, conjuring, conjury, devilry, diabolism, divination, enchantment, exorcism, fascination, foreboding, fortune-telling, hocuspocus, horoscopy, illusion, incantation, legerdemain, magnetism, necromancy, occultism, power, prediction, presage, prestidigitation, prophecy, rune, sleight of hand, soothsaying, sorcery, sortilege, spell*, superstition, taboo*, theurgy, trickery, voodoo, voodooism, witchcraft, witchery, witching, wizardry |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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