Prestidigitation is a noun meaning sleight of hand.
On paper the latest start-up tech company was wealthy, but it was really a prestidigitation of numbers cooked up by the accountants to drum up buzz.
Month: April 2014
April 8, 2014
Royal road is a noun meaning an easy way of achieving something.
Kaylee frequently took the royal road in high school and graduated with a perfect 4.0 GPA, but once she got to college she quickly discovered she was ill-prepared.
April 7, 2014
Calaboose is a noun meaning jail especially a local jail.
In the early ’60s The Friendship Nine, a group of local college students arrested for staging a sit-in at a local restaurant, spent a month in the calaboose rather than pay a fine as a way of protesting segregation.
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