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knack

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1. knack - Noun

2. knack - Verb

3. Knack - Proper noun

Meaning

To crack; to make a sharp, abrupt noise to chink.

A petty contrivance; a toy; a plaything; a knickknack.

A readiness in performance; aptness at doing something; skill; facility; dexterity.

Something performed, or to be done, requiring aptness and dexterity; a trick; a device.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn. Leonardo DiCaprio

When I am drunk I am at my best. It is the national knack of the French. Orson Scott Card

Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of Custom: but of all these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the Miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be Miraculous. Thomas Carlyle

Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it. Temple Grandin

When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though the war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves. Albert Camus

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way. Albert Camus

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