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| Main Entry: | knowledge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's understanding; information |
| Synonyms: | ability, acquaintance, apprehension, awareness, cognition, comprehension, consciousness, dirt*, discernment, doctrine, dogma, dope*, education, enlightenment, erudition, expertise, facts, familiarity, goods*, grasp, insight, instruction, intelligence, judgment, know-how*, learning, light*, lore, observation, philosophy, picture, power*, proficiency, recognition, scholarship, science, scoop*, substance, theory, tuition, wisdom, accomplishments, attainments, inside story, principles, schooling |
| Antonyms: | ignorance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | knowledge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
acataleptic, accomplished, acquainted with, acromatic, acuminous, acute, alive, alive to, aposterioristic, apprized of, arch, argute, ascertained, astute, at home in, autodidactic, awake, aware of, behind the curtain, behind the scenes, blue, bookish, book-learned, bright, calculating, canny, clear-eyed, clear-headed, clear-sighted, clear-witted, clever, cognitive, cognizable, cognizant of, cognoscible, commonplace, commonsensible, conscious of, considerate, conversant with, cool, cool-headed, declaratory, deep, deep-read, discerning, educated, eleatic, enlightened, equitable, erudite, esoteric, expedient, fair, familiar, familiar as household words, familiar to every schoolboy, familiar with, far-sighted, forward in, fox-like, gnomic, hackneyed, hard-headed, heaven-born, heaven-directed, impartial, in advance of one's age, in one's right mind, in the secret, informed, informed of, inscient, instructed, intelligent, judicious, keen, keen-eyed, keen-sighted, keen-witted, knowing, known, learned, let into, lettered, long-headed, long-sighted, made acquainted with, metempirical, nasute, needle-witted, nimble-witted, no stranger to, noted, notorious, of unwarped judgment, omnilegent, omniscient, oracular, palpable, pancratic, panoptic, pedantic, penetrating, percipient, perspicacious, piercing, politic, prehensible, privy to, proficient in, profound, proverbial, provident, prudent, quick, quick of apprehension, quick-eyed, quick-sighted, quick-witted, rational, read in, reasonable, received, recognized, reflecting, reported, sagacious, sage, sapient, scholastic, scient, scious, scrutable, self-taught, sensible, sententious, sharp, sharp as a needle, sharp-eyed, sharp-sighted, sharp-witted, shrewd, sober, solid, sound, staid, strong in, strong-headed, strong-minded, supraliminal, thoughtful, trite, unbiased, unbigoted, undazzled, undeceived, unperplexed, unprejudiced, unprepossessed, up to, versed in, watchful, well-advised, well-conned, well-educated, well-grounded, well-informed, well-judged, well-known, well-read, wide-awake, wise, wise as a serpent, wise as Solomon, wise as Solon, wise in one's generation
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| Main Entry: | cognizance/cognition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding |
| Synonyms: | acknowledgment, apprehension, attention, awareness, comprehension, discernment, insight, intelligence, knowledge, mind, need, note, notice, observance, observation, perception, reasoning, recognition, regard, percipience |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, misunderstanding |
| Main Entry: | comprehension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, awareness, capacity, cognizance, conception, discernment, double take*, grasp, intelligence, judgment, ken, knowledge, perception, realization, sense, take*, aha, apperception, prehension, slow take |
| Antonyms: | mistake, misunderstanding, incomprehension, misinterpretation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | data |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | information in visible form |
| Synonyms: | brass tacks*, chapter and verse*, circumstances, details, dope, dossier, evidence, facts, goods, knowledge, notes, picture, proof, scoop, score, statistics, testimony, abstracts, compilations, conclusions, documents, experiments, figures, info, input, materials, measurements, memorandums, reports, results, whole story |
| Notes: | data (plural noun) is a collection of facts, observations, or measurements from which conclusions may be drawn while datum (singular noun) is an item of factual information derived from measurement or research |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | edification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | improvement, education |
| Synonyms: | betterment, elevation, elucidation, enhancement, enlightenment, guidance, illumination, information, instruction, knowledge, learning, nurture, teaching, tuition, uplifting, irradiation, schooling |
| Antonyms: | destruction, worsening |
| Main Entry: | enlightenment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | awareness, understanding |
| Synonyms: | civilization, comprehension, cultivation, culture, edification, education, information, insight, instruction, knowledge, learning, literacy, refinement, sophistication, teaching, wisdom, bodhi, broad-mindedness, open-mindedness |
| Antonyms: | bewilderment, confusion, ignorance, puzzlement |
| Main Entry: | erudition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | higher education |
| Synonyms: | cultivation, culture, enlightenment, knowledge, learning, literacy, lore, pedantry, refinement, savvy, scholarship, science, bookishness, brains, intellectuality, learnedness, letters, scholarliness, studiousness |
| Antonyms: | ignorance |
| Main Entry: | hindsight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | retrospect |
| Synonyms: | 20/20 vision, experience, knowledge, recollection, remembering, wisdom, Monday morning quarterbacking, looking back |
| Main Entry: | information |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | facts, news |
| Synonyms: | advice, ammo, break*, chapter and verse*, clue, confidence, counsel, cue, data, dirt*, dope*, dossier, earful, enlightenment, erudition, illumination, info, inside story, instruction, intelligence, knowledge, leak, learning, lore, lowdown, material, message, network, notice, notification, orientation, propaganda, report, science, scoop, score, tidings, tip, what's what, whole story, wisdom, word* |
| Antonyms: | ignorance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ken |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perception |
| Synonyms: | acumen, apprehension, attention, attitude, awareness, cognizance, comprehension, concept, consciousness, grasp, idea, impression, insight, judgment, knowledge, light, notion, picture, realizing, recognition, sense, sight, understanding, vision, apprehending |
| Main Entry: | know-how |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | skill, talent |
| Synonyms: | ability, adroitness, aptitude, art, background, capability, command, craft, cunning, dexterity, experience, expertise, faculty, flair, ingenuity, knack, knowledge, proficiency, savoir-faire, wisdom, expertness |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, lack, want |
| Main Entry: | literacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to read |
| Synonyms: | background, cultivation, education, knowledge, learning, proficiency, refinement, scholarship, articulacy, articulateness |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, illiteracy |
| Main Entry: | lore |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | myths, traditional wisdom |
| Synonyms: | adage, belief, custom, doctrine, enlightenment, erudition, experience, fable, folklore, information, knowledge, learning, legend, mythology, saga, saying, scholarship, science, superstition, tale, teaching, tradition, letters, mythos, saw |
| Main Entry: | mastery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | command, expertise |
| Synonyms: | ability, adroitness, attainment, capacity, cleverness, comprehension, cunning, dexterity, familiarity, finesse, genius, grasp, grip, ken, knack, know-how, knowledge, power, proficiency, prowess, skill, understanding, acquirement, adeptness, deftness, expertism, expertness, mastership, virtuosity, wizardry |
| Antonyms: | failure, inefficiency, lack, amateurishness |
| Main Entry: | news |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | information, revelation |
| Synonyms: | account, advice, announcement, broadcast, bulletin, cable, cognizance, communication, copy, data, description, disclosure, discovery, dispatch, enlightenment, exposé, hearsay, intelligence, knowledge, leak, message, narration, news flash, recital, recognition, release, report, rumor, scandal, scoop*, specification, statement, story, telecast, telegram, telling, tidings*, word*, communiqué, eye-opener, front-page news, headlines, itemization, lowdown, particularization, the goods |
| Antonyms: | history |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | perception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding, idea |
| Synonyms: | acumen, apprehension, approach, attention, attitude, awareness, conceit, concept, conception, consciousness, discernment, feeling, flash, grasp, image, impression, insight, judgment, knowledge, light, notion, observation, opinion, perspicacity, picture, plan, realizing, recognition, sagacity, sensation, sense, study, taste, thought, viewpoint, apprehending, big idea, brain wave, brainchild, intellection |
| Main Entry: | proficiency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability, skillfulness |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, advance, advancement, aptitude, competence, dexterity, efficiency, expertise, facility, formula, green thumb, headway*, knack*, know-how*, knowledge, learning, mastery, moxie*, oil*, progress, right stuff*, savvy*, skill, stuff, talent, chops, expertness, makings, what it takes |
| Antonyms: | clumsiness, inability, incompetence, ineptness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | reading |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interpretation of written word |
| Synonyms: | account, commentary, conception, construction, edification, education, erudition, examination, grasp, impression, inspection, knowledge, learning, lesson, paraphrase, perusal, rendition, review, scholarship, scrutiny, study, translation, treatment, understanding, version, book-learning, rendering |
| Antonyms: | writing |
| Main Entry: | right stuff |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | whatever it takes |
| Synonyms: | bravery, courage, credentials, drive, experience, guts, knowledge, power, self-confidence, talent, abilities, dependability, essential qualities, qualifications, skills, the goods, the makings, the stuff, what it takes |
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