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Expert

Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery.

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Skilled 84% connected

Having familiar knowledge united with readiness and dexterity in its application; familiarly acquainted with; expert; skillful; -- often followed by…

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Skilled 84% connected

Having familiar knowledge united with readiness and dexterity in its application; familiarly acquainted with; expert; skillful; -- often followed by…

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Ace 76% connected

A unit; a single point or spot on a card or die; the card or die so marked; as, the ace of diamonds.

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Adept 76% connected

One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.

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Agronomist 76% connected

One versed in agronomy; a student of agronomy.

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Analyst 76% connected

One who analyzes; formerly, one skilled in algebraical geometry; now commonly, one skilled in chemical analysis.

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Anatomist 76% connected

One who is skilled in the art of anatomy, or dissection.

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Antiquarian 76% connected

Pertaining to antiquaries, or to antiquity; as, antiquarian literature.

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Antiquary 76% connected

Pertaining to antiquity.

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Arbiter 76% connected

A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them.

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Archaist 76% connected

Am antiquary.

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Archer 76% connected

A bowman, one skilled in the use of the bow and arrow.

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Authority 76% connected

Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authori…

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Cabalist 76% connected

One versed in the cabala, or the mysteries of Jewish traditions.

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Calculator 76% connected

One who computes or reckons: one who estimates or considers the force and effect of causes, with a view to form a correct estimate of the effects.

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Champion 76% connected

To furnish with a champion; to attend or defend as champion; to support or maintain; to protect.

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Climatologist 76% connected

One versed in, or who studies, climatology.

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Commentator 76% connected

One who writes a commentary or comments; an expositor; an annotator.

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Computer 76% connected

One who computes.

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Estimator 76% connected

One who estimates or values; a valuer.

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Exegete 76% connected

An exegetist.

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Genealogist 76% connected

One who traces genealogies or the descent of persons or families.

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Genius 76% connected

A good or evil spirit, or demon, supposed by the ancients to preside over a man's destiny in life; a tutelary deity; a supernatural being; a spirit,…

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Geographer 76% connected

One versed in geography.

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Guide 76% connected

The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder.

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Horticulturist 76% connected

One who practices horticulture.

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Investigator 76% connected

One who searches diligently into a subject.

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Jurist 76% connected

One who professes the science of law; one versed in the law, especially in the civil law; a writer on civil and international law.

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Lapidary 76% connected

An artificer who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones; hence, a dealer in precious stones.

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Logician 76% connected

A person skilled in logic.

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Mythologist 76% connected

One versed in, or who writes on, mythology or myths.

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Observer 76% connected

One who observes, or pays attention to, anything; especially, one engaged in, or trained to habits of, close and exact observation; as, an astronomic…

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Parliamentarian 76% connected

Of or pertaining to Parliament.

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Pathfinder 76% connected

One who discovers a way or path; one who explores untraversed regions.

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Pteridologist 76% connected

One who is versed in pteridology.

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Reckoner 76% connected

One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculations, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning.

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Scout 76% connected

A swift sailing boat.

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Sensation 76% connected

An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one o…

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Shark 76% connected

Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas.

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Shooter 76% connected

One who shoots, as an archer or a gunner.

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Shot 76% connected

of Shoot

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Specialist 76% connected

One who devotes himself to some specialty; as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye,…

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Stager 76% connected

A player.

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Star 76% connected

One of the innumerable luminous bodies seen in the heavens; any heavenly body other than the sun, moon, comets, and nebulae.

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Talent 76% connected

Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minae or 6,000 drachmae. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs.…

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Veteran 76% connected

Long exercised in anything, especially in military life and the duties of a soldier; long practiced or experienced; as, a veteran officer or soldier;…

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Virtuoso 76% connected

One devoted to virtu; one skilled in the fine arts, in antiquities, and the like; a collector or ardent admirer of curiosities, etc.

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Whiz 76% connected

To make a humming or hissing sound, like an arrow or ball flying through the air; to fly or move swiftly with a sharp hissing or whistling sound.

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Wizard 76% connected

A wise man; a sage.

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Actor 76% connected

One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

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Doer 76% connected

One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.

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Worker 76% connected

One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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Adept 92% connected

One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.

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Good 92% connected

Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; ad…

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Practiced 92% connected

of Practice

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Proficient 92% connected

One who has made considerable advances in any business, art, science, or branch of learning; an expert; an adept; as, proficient in a trade; a profic…

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Skilful 92% connected

See Skilful.

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Skillful 92% connected

Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning.

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Technical 92% connected

Of or pertaining to the useful or mechanic arts, or to any science, business, or the like; specially appropriate to any art, science, or business; as…

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