hocus-pocus vs slickness

hocus-pocus and slickness both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hocus-pocus	Yes	No	No	No
slickness	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, hocus-pocus and slickness are synonyms defined as:

hocus-pocus and slickness: verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

Other synonyms of hocus-pocus include hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, trickery.

hocus-pocus (noun)	slickness (noun)
verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way	a slippery smoothness
a meaningless chant or expression used in conjuring or incantation.	a kind of fluent easy superficiality
	verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way