Слово "technique". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

That was Eve's technique—to be the villain and play the heroine. Oh, she was clever.

Well, both you and I know,' here Bengalsky smiled a wise smile, 'that there's no such thing in the world, and that it's all just superstition, and Maestro Woland is simply a perfect master of the technique of conjuring, as we shall see from the most interesting part, that is, the exposure of this technique, and since we're all of us to a man both for technique and for its exposure, let's bring on Mr Woland! ...'

"Your technique.