slickness vs hocus-pocus

slickness and hocus-pocus both are nouns.

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

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

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

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

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