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| Main Entry: | conjure |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | appeal to, implore |
| Synonyms: | adjure, ask, beg, beseech, brace, crave, entreat, importune, pray, supplicate, urge |
| Antonyms: | disgust, turn off |
| Main Entry: | conjure |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cast spell |
| Synonyms: | bewitch, charm, enchant, entrance, exorcise, fascinate, invoke, levitate, raise, rouse, summon, voodoo, call upon, ensorcel, play tricks |
| Main Entry: | hocus-pocus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sleight of hand |
| Synonyms: | abracadabra*, abracadabra, artifice, cant, chant, charm, cheating, chicanery, deceit, deception, deception, delusion, flimflam*, fraud, gibberish, hoax, humbug, imposture, incantation, jargon, juggling, legerdemain, magic, magic, monkey business, mumbo jumbo*, mumbo jumbo, nonsense, open sesame*, rigmarole*, sleight of hand, smoke and mirrors, spell, swindle, trick, trickery, conjuring, gobbledegook*, hocus, magic words, mummery, mystification, occultism |
| Antonyms: | reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | incantation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spell, magic |
| Synonyms: | abracadabra*, black magic, chant, charm, enchantment, formula, hex, hocus-pocus*, hymn, invocation, necromancy, open sesame*, sorcery, voodoo*, witchcraft, ala kazam, bewitchment, conjuration, conjuring, hoodoo, mumbo-jumbo, rune, wizardry |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | legerdemain |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sleight of hand |
| Synonyms: | chicanery, cunning, deceit, deception, hocus-pocus, manipulation, trickery, artfulness, conjuring, craftiness |
| Main Entry: | magic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | supernatural power; appearance |
| Synonyms: | alchemy, astrology, augury, black art, divination, enchantment, exorcism, fascination, foreboding, illusion, incantation, legerdemain, magnetism, necromancy, power, prediction, presage, prophecy, sleight of hand, sorcery, sortilege, spell, superstition, taboo, trickery, voodoo, witchcraft, allurement, bewitchment, conjuring, conjury, devilry, diabolism, fortune-telling, hocuspocus, horoscopy, occultism, of impossible feats by tricks abracadabra, prestidigitation, rune, soothsaying, thaumaturgy, voodooism, wizardry |
| Main Entry: | magic/magical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bewitching, charming |
| Synonyms: | bewitched, charismatic, clairvoyant, diabolic, eerie, enchanted, enchanting, entrancing, extraordinary, fascinating, fiendish, ghostly, haunted, imaginary, magnetic, marvelous, miraculous, mysterious, mystic, mythical, occult, otherworldly, spectral, spellbound, spooky, uncanny, unusual, weird, wonderful, conjuring, demoniac, ensorcelled, entranced, necromantic, parapsychological, runic, sorcerous, spellbinding, spiritualistic, telekinetic, thaumaturgic, tranced, witching, witchlike, wizardly |
| Antonyms: | normal, unmoving |
| Main Entry: | necromancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sorcery |
| Synonyms: | abracadabra*, alchemy, black art, black magic, charm, divination, enchantment, evil eye, hocus-pocus*, incantation, jinx, magic, mumbo jumbo*, mysticism, spell, voodoo, witchcraft, bewitchment, conjuring, devilry, occultism, thaumaturgy, witchery, witching, wizardry |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sorcery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | black magic, witchcraft |
| Synonyms: | abracadabra*, alchemy, black art, charm, divination, enchantment, evil eye, hocus-pocus*, incantation, jinx, magic, mumbo jumbo*, necromancy, spell, voodoo, bewitchment, conjuring, devilry, hoodoo, thaumaturgy, witchery, witching, wizardry |
| Antonyms: | reality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | voodoo |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | black magic |
| Synonyms: | abracadabra*, alchemy, black art, charm, divination, enchantment, evil eye, hocus-pocus*, jinx, mumbo jumbo*, necromancy, sorcery, spell, witchcraft, conjuring, devilry, hoodoo, obeah, obi, witchery, wizardry |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | witchcraft |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spell-casting, magic |
| Synonyms: | abracadabra*, black art, black magic, charisma, divination, enchantment, hocus-pocus*, incantation, jinx, magnetism, mumbo jumbo*, necromancy, occult, sorcery, spell, voodoo, whammy*, bewitchment, conjuring, hoodoo, occultism, thaumaturgy, voodooism, witchery, witching, wizardry |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | magical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bewitching |
| Synonyms: | bewitched, charismatic, clairvoyant, diabolic, eerie, enchanted, enchanting, entrancing, extraordinary, fascinating, fiendish, ghostly, haunted, imaginary, magic, magnetic, marvelous, miraculous, mysterious, mystic, mythical, occult, otherworldly, spectral, spellbound, spooky, uncanny, unusual, weird, wonderful, conjuring, demoniac, ensorcelled, entranced, necromantic, parapsychological, runic, sorcerous, spellbinding, spiritualistic, telekinetic, thaumaturgic, tranced, witching, witchlike, wizardly |
| Antonyms: | boring, dull |
| Main Entry: | beg |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | request |
| Synonyms: | abjure, advocate, ask, beseech, besiege, canvass, conjure, crave, desire, entreat, implore, importune, invoke, nag, petition, plead, pray, press, requisition, solicit, sue, supplicate, urge, woo, worry, apply to, call to, impetrate, obsecrate, obtest |
| Antonyms: | answer |
| Main Entry: | entreat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plead with |
| Synonyms: | ask, beg, beseech, blandish, coax, conjure, crave, enjoin, exhort, implore, importune, invoke, pester, petition, plague, pray, press, request, supplicate, urge, wheedle, appeal to |
| Antonyms: | answer, command, demand |
| Main Entry: | evoke |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | induce, stimulate |
| Synonyms: | arouse, awaken, call, conjure, educe, elicit, evince, evolve, excite, extort, extract, invoke, milk*, provoke, raise, rally, recall, rouse, summon, call forth, give rise to, stir up, waken |
| Notes: | invoke is to call upon or appeal to something or someone for help or inspiration, while evoke is to bring or call something to the conscious mind; evoke is from Latin evocare 'to call out' while invoke is from invocare 'to call on' provoke means to stir up or arouse - or to incite to anger or resentment; evoke means to call forth or call to mind emotions, feelings, and responses |
| Antonyms: | halt, quell, repress, silence, stifle, stop, suppress |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | implore |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | beg |
| Synonyms: | appeal, beseech, conjure, crave, entreat, importune, plead, pray, solicit, supplicate, urge, go on bended knee |
| Antonyms: | answer |
| Main Entry: | invoke |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | call upon |
| Synonyms: | adjure, beg, beseech, conjure, crave, entreat, implore, importune, petition, plead, pray, request, solicit, summon, supplicate, appeal to, call forth, send for |
| Main Entry: | juggle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mislead, falsify; handle several things at once |
| Synonyms: | alter, beguile, betray, bluff, change, conjure, delude, disguise, doctor*, double-cross, fix, humbug*, maneuver, manipulate, misrepresent, modify, shuffle, take in, trim, illude, perform magic, prestidigitate, tamper with |
| Antonyms: | be honest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | summon |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | call to a place |
| Synonyms: | arouse, ask, assemble, beckon, beep, bid, call, call back, call for, charge, cite, command, conjure, convene, convoke, direct, draft, draw on, enjoin, gather, hail, invite, invoke, mobilize, motion, muster, order, petition, rally, recall, request, ring, rouse, sign, signal, subpoena, toll, call forth, call in, call into action, call together, call upon, send for |
| Antonyms: | dismiss, send away |
| Main Entry: | urge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | beg, push for, encourage |
| Synonyms: | adjure, advance, advise, advocate, ask, attract, beseech, champion, charge, commend, compel, conjure, counsel, countenance, drive, egg on*, endorse, entreat, exhort, favor, force, further, goad, hasten, impel, implore, incite, induce, influence, inspire, instigate, maneuver, move, plead, press, promote, prompt, propel, propose, push, rationalize, recommend, request, sanction, solicit, spur, stimulate, support, tempt, wheedle, appeal to, fire up, insist on, put up to, speak for |
| Antonyms: | discourage, dissuade |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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