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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding |
| Synonyms: | aha, apperception, apprehension, awareness, capacity, cognizance, conception, discernment, double take, grasp, intelligence, judgment, ken, knowledge, perception, prehension, realization, sense, slow take, take* |
| Antonyms: | incomprehension, misinterpretation, mistake, misunderstanding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | culture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | breeding, education, sophistication |
| Synonyms: | ability, accomplishment, address, aestheticism, art, capacity, civilization, class, courtesy, cultivation, delicacy, dignity, discrimination, dress, elegance, elevation, enlightenment, erudition, experience, fashion, finish, gentility, good taste, grace, improvement, kindness, learning, manners, nobility, perception, polish, politeness, practice, proficiency, refinement, savoir-faire, science, skill, tact, training, urbanity |
| Notes: | culture is acquired by study and application; cultivation is developed by training and exposure |
| Main Entry: | department |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | area of interest, expertise |
| Synonyms: | activity, administration, assignment, avocation, bailiwick, berth, bureau, business, capacity, class, classification, domain, dominion, duty, field, function, incumbency, jurisdiction, line, niche, occupation, office, province, realm, responsibility, slot, specialty, sphere, spot, station, vocation, walk of life, wing |
| Main Entry: | dimensions/dimension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | proportions; range |
| Synonyms: | admeasurement, ambit, amplitude, bigness, bulk, capacity, compass, depth, dimensionality, extension, extensity, extent, greatness, height, importance, largeness, length, magnitude, measure, measurement, reach, scale, scope, size, volume, width |
| Main Entry: | efficacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | efficiency; productiveness |
| Synonyms: | ability, adequacy, capability, capableness, capacity, competence, effect, effectiveness, efficaciousness, energy, force, influence, performance, potency, power, strength, success, sufficiency, use, vigor, virtue, weight |
| Notes: | if something is efficacious, it is able to produce the desired result; efficacy means the power to produce effects |
| Antonyms: | failure, inefficacy, inefficiency, unproductiveness, uselessness, weakness |
| Main Entry: | endowment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal talent, ability |
| Synonyms: | aptitude, attribute, capability, capacity, faculty, flair, genius, gift, habilitation, power, qualification, quality, turn |
| Antonyms: | drawback, inability, weakness |
| Main Entry: | endurance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bearing hardship; staying power |
| Synonyms: | ability, allowance, backbone, bearing, capacity, continuing, cool, coolness, courage, enduring, forebearance, fortitude, grit, guts, gutsiness, heart*, holding up, intestinal fortitude, mettle, moxie*, patience, perseverance, persistence, pertinacity, pluck, resignation, resistance, resolution, restraint, spunk, stamina, standing, starch, strength, submission, sufferance, suffering, tenacity, tolerance, toleration, undergoing, vitality, will, withstanding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | faculty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability, skill |
| Synonyms: | adroitness, aptitude, aptness, bent, capability, capacity, cleverness, dexterity, facility, flair, forte, genius, gift, instinct, intelligence, knack, knowing way around, leaning, nose*, peculiarity, penchant, pistol, power, predilection, proclivity, propensity, property, quality, readiness, reason, right stuff, sense, strength, talent, turn, what it takes, wits |
| Notes: | a facility is a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry or a skillful performance or ability without difficulty; faculty is one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind or the body of teachers and administrators at a school |
| Antonyms: | inability, incompetence, ineptness, lack, need |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | feeling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a state of mind, often strong |
| Synonyms: | action, affection, appreciation, ardor, behavior, capacity, compassion, concern, cultivation, culture, delicacy, discernment, discrimination, emotion, empathy, faculty, fervor, fondness, heat, imagination, impression, intelligence, intensity, intuition, judgment, keenness, palpability, passion, pathos, pity, reaction, refinement, sensibility, sensitivity, sentiment, sentimentality, sharpness, spirit, sympathy, tangibility, taste, tenderness, understanding, warmth |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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