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Didactical

Fitted or intended to teach; conveying instruction; preceptive; instructive; teaching some moral lesson; as, didactic essays.

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Informative 84% connected

Having power to inform, animate, or vivify.

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Informative 84% connected

Having power to inform, animate, or vivify.

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Instructive 84% connected

Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons.

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Instructive 84% connected

Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons.

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Didacticism 74% connected

The didactic method or system.

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Didacticism 74% connected

The didactic method or system.

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Education 74% connected

The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act o…

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Education 74% connected

The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act o…

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Didactic 92% connected

Alt. of Didactical

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Assimilator noun · 78% connection

someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs

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Coaching noun · 78% connection

the job of a professional coach

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Coaching job noun · 78% connection

the job of a professional coach

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Didactics noun · 78% connection

the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill; "he received no formal education"; "our instruc…

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Educational activity noun · 78% connection

the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill; "he received no formal education"; "our instruc…

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Facilitation noun · 78% connection

the condition of being made easy (or easier); "social facilitation is an adaptive condition"

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Instruction noun · 78% connection

the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill; "he received no formal education"; "our instruc…

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Learner noun · 78% connection

someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs

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Lesson noun · 78% connection

a unit of instruction; "he took driving lessons"

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Pedagogy noun · 78% connection

the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill; "he received no formal education"; "our instruc…

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Scholar noun · 78% connection

someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs

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Apologue noun · 78% connection

A story or relation of fictitious events, intended to convey some moral truth; a moral fable.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fitted, intended, teach, conveying, instruction.
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Apophthegm noun · 78% connection

A short, pithy, and instructive saying; a terse remark, conveying some important truth; a sententious precept or maxim.

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Check verb · 78% connection

develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control; "Parents must discipline their…

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Condition verb · 78% connection

develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control; "Parents must discipline their…

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Corruption noun · 78% connection

moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy fo…

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Degeneracy noun · 78% connection

moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy fo…

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Depravation noun · 78% connection

moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy fo…

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Depravity noun · 78% connection

moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy fo…

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Didascalic adjective · 78% connection

Didactic; preceptive.

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Discipline verb · 78% connection

develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control; "Parents must discipline their…

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Doctrine noun · 78% connection

Teaching; instruction.

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Edification noun · 78% connection

The act of edifying, or the state of being edified; a building up, especially in a moral or spiritual sense; moral, intellectual, or s…

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Emblem noun · 78% connection

A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verse, or the like, intended as a moral lesson or meditation.

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Evil noun · 78% connection

Moral badness, or the deviation of a moral being from the principles of virtue imposed by conscience, or by the will of the Supreme Be…

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Exercise noun · 78% connection

That which is done for the sake of exercising, practicing, training, or promoting skill, health, mental, improvement, moral discipline…

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Get verb · 78% connection

To obtain mental possession of; to learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; as to get a lesson; also with out; as, to get out one's Gr…

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Informatory adjective · 78% connection

Full of, or conveying, information; instructive.

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Lacasterian adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to the monitorial system of instruction followed by Joseph Lancaster, of England, in which advanced pupils in a schoo…

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