Knack vs Grasp - What's the difference?
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A readiness in performance; aptness at doing something; skill; facility; dexterity.
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A petty contrivance; a toy; a plaything; a knickknack.
Something performed, or to be done, requiring aptness and dexterity; a trick; a device.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) To crack; to make a sharp, abrupt noise; to chink.
To speak affectedly.
To grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand.
(senseid)To understand.
Grip.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
(senseid)Understanding.
That which is accessible; that which is within one's reach or ability.
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Knack is a related term of grasp.
As a noun knack
is a traditional swedish toffee prepared at christmas.As a verb knack
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Noun
(en noun)- The sophist runs for conver to the darkness of what is not and attaches himself to it by some knack of his;
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(wikipedia grasp)Verb
(en verb)- I have never been able to grasp the concept of infinity .