knack
/næk/ noun C2- A readiness in performance; aptness at doing something.
- A petty contrivance; a toy.
- Something performed, or to be done, requiring aptness and dexterity.
Plural knacks
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And if it isn’t carried in just a certain way the handle pulls out--so I’d better keep it because I know the exact knack of it.
Diana did Anne’s front hair in the new pompadour style and Anne tied Diana’s bows with the especial knack she possessed; and they experimented with at least half a dozen different ways of arranging their back hair.
Evans’s, you know, for she is a professional, and I’m only a schoolgirl, with a little knack of reciting.
Elsewhere the count found everything he required—smelling-bottles, cigars, knick-knacks.
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