The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill o…
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The act or process of acquiring.
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.The posture, action, or disposition of a figure or a statue.
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in th…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.The act of knowing; knowledge; perception.
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.something immaterial (as a circumstance or influence) that contributes to producing a result
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.Contained within limits; hence, having the desires limited by that which one has; not disposed to repine or grumble; satisfied; conten…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.the body of ideas that determine the knowledge that is intellectually certain at any particular time
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.Equal in wortir or value, force, power, effect, import, and the like; alike in significance and value; of the same import or meaning.
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.knowledge that is available to anyone
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.The act or state of knowing; clear perception of fact, truth, or duty; certain apprehension; familiar cognizance; cognition.
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Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.A vocabulary, or book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language or of a considerable number of them, with the…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways; "he had the attitude that wo…
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To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.
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Its definition shares important concepts with this word: words, language, forms, meaning, grammatical.The act of conjoining, or the state of being conjoined, united, or associated; union; association; league.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: words, language, forms, meaning, grammatical.a clause in a complex sentence that is grammatically equivalent to the main clause and that performs the same grammatical function
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Its definition shares important concepts with this word: words, language, forms, meaning, grammatical.Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: words, language, forms, meaning, grammatical.(linguistics) a type of grammar that describes syntax in terms of a set of logical rules that can generate all and only the infinite n…
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Its definition shares important concepts with this word: words, language, forms, meaning, grammatical.The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher…
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