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A skill is the learned or innate [1] ability to act with determined results with good execution often within a given amount of time, energy, or both. [2] Skills can often [quantify] be divided into domain-general and domain-specific skills.
skilful, skillful; speciality, specialty; spelt, spelled; spoilt, spoiled – but note that in American and Canadian English, spoiled is both a past-tense verb (e.g. the milk spoiled) and a past-participial adjective (the spoiled milk).
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Within a particular field of study, such as computer graphics, other words might be more common for misspelling, such as "pixel" misspelled as "pixle" (or variants "cesium" and "caesium"). Sometimes words are purposely misspelled, as a form in slang, abbreviations, or in song lyrics, etc.
Tolkien had chosen to represent Rohirric, the language of Rohan/the Mark as Old English, [22] where orþanc means "intelligence, understanding, mind; cleverness, skill; skilful work, mechanical art" as a noun, and "ingenious, skilful" as an adjective. [23] Tolkien was thus admitting that he was using Old English to represent Rohirric. [22]
Synonyms often express a nuance of meaning or are used in different registers of speech or writing. Various technical domains may employ synonyms to convey precise technical nuances. Some writers avoid repeating the same word in close proximity, and prefer to use synonyms: this is called elegant variation. Many modern style guides criticize this.
Later that year at the Council of Reims he was accused of simony, in other words, of having purchased his bishopric. [3] In a skilful defence, Geoffrey claimed that without his knowledge his brother bought the bishopric for him. [a] [3] He was allowed to keep his see on giving of an oath of his good faith. [3]
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.