ho·kum 
(hōkəm)
(hōkəm)n.
1. Something apparently impressive or legitimate but actually untrue or insincere; nonsense.
2. A stock technique for eliciting a desired response from an audience.
[Perhaps HO(CUS-POCUS) + (BUN)KUM.]
- advancement
- advancer
- advantage
- advantageous
- advantageously
- advantageousness
- advect
- advection
- advective
- advent
- Adventism
- Adventist
- adventitia
- adventitial
- adventitious
- adventitiously
- adventitiousness
- adventive
- adventively
- Advent Sunday
- adventure
- adventurer
- adventuresome
- adventuresomely
- adventuresomeness