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adeptness
[adj. uh-dept; n. ad-ept, uh-dept] 
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adeptness
[adj. uh-dept; n. ad-ept, uh-dept]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability |
| Synonyms: | adroitness, artfulness, artistry, command, craft, deftness, expertise, expertness, knack, mastery, proficiency, skill, skillfulness |
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| Main Entry: | finesse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | know-how, maneuver |
| Synonyms: | acumen, adeptness, adroitness, artfulness, artifice, big stick, bluff, cleverness, competence, con, craft, craftiness, cunning, delicacy, diplomacy, discernment, discretion, feint, gimmick, grift, guile, polish, quickness, racket, run-around, ruse, savoir-faire, savvy, skill, sophistication, stratagem, subtlety, tact, trick, wile |
| Antonyms: | ignorance |
| Main Entry: | mastery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | command, expertise |
| Synonyms: | ability, acquirement, adeptness, adroitness, attainment, capacity, cleverness, comprehension, cunning, deftness, dexterity, expertism, expertness, familiarity, finesse, genius, grasp, grip, ken, knack, know-how, knowledge, mastership, power, proficiency, prowess, skill, understanding, virtuosity, wizardry |
| Antonyms: | amateurishness, failure, inefficiency, lack |
| Main Entry: | prowess |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability, skill |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, address, adeptness, adroitness, aptitude, attainment, command, deftness, dexterity, excellence, expertise, expertness, facility, genius, mastery, readiness, sleight, talent |
| Antonyms: | inability, weakness |
| Main Entry: | touch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | manner, method |
| Synonyms: | ability, acquaintance, adeptness, adroitness, approach, art, artistry, awareness, characteristic, command, communication, contact, deftness, direction, effect, facility, faculty, familiarity, finish, flair, hand, handiwork, influence, knack, mastery, skill, style, talent, technique, trademark, understanding, virtuosity, way |
| Main Entry: | deftness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dexterity |
| Synonyms: | adeptness, adroitness, dexterousness, litheness, nimbleness, skill, skillfulness, sleight, swiftness |
| Main Entry: | expertness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability |
| Synonyms: | adeptness, adroitness, art, craft, expertise, facility, gift, knack, know-how, mastery, proficiency, savvy, skill, skillfulness, specialization |
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| Main Entry: | craft |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Byzantine, Machiavellian, acute, arch, artful, artificial, astute, cagey, calculated, callid, canny, captious, cautelous, circuitous, cloak-and-dagger, contriving, convoluted, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceitful, deep, designing, diplomatic, disingenuous, feline, insidious, intriguing, knowing, leery, lubricious, pawky, politic, political, profound, sharp, shrewd, skilful, slippery, sly, sneckdrawing, sportive, stealthy, strategic, subdolous, subtle, surreptitious, tactical, thick, tricksy, tricky, underhand, unwholesome, vafrous, venal, vulpine, wily
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| Main Entry: | touch |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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attingent, close to, contactual, conterminous, contiguous, end to end, hand to hand, haptic, in contact, intractible, itching, lambent, libant, osculatory, palpable, pertingent, tactile, tactual, tangential, tangible, touching, with no interval
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