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prestidigitation

nounCommon GRE wordMore P words

skillful sleight of hand; by extension, deft manual deception or trickery

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Prestidigitation in a sentence

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With dazzling prestidigitation the magician made the coin vanish from his open palm.

Synonyms
legerdemainconjuringsleight
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The new intern was so blank that she completed in two days a backlog her predecessor had let pile up for weeks.

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Prestidigitation (noun) means skillful sleight of hand; by extension, deft manual deception or trickery
Here is prestidigitation used in an example sentence: "With dazzling prestidigitation the magician made the coin vanish from his open palm."
Common synonyms for prestidigitation include legerdemain, conjuring, sleight.
Prestidigitation is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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