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Schooling

of School

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Education 76% 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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Grooming 76% connected

of Groom

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Instruction 76% connected

The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information.

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Pedagogy 76% connected

Pedagogics; pedagogism.

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Preparation 76% connected

The act of preparing or fitting beforehand for a particular purpose, use, service, or condition; previous arrangement or adaptation; a making ready;…

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Teaching 76% connected

of Teach

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Training 76% connected

of Train

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School 74% connected

A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.

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School 74% connected

A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.

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School 92% connected

A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.

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Historian noun · 78% connection

a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it

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Historic adjective · 78% connection

belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past; "historic victories"; "historical (or historic) times"; "a historic…

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Historical adjective · 78% connection

belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past; "historic victories"; "historical (or historic) times"; "a historic…

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Historiographer noun · 78% connection

a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it

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Interpretation noun · 78% connection

an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious; "the edict was subject to many interpretations"; "he annoyed us with his…

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Interpreting noun · 78% connection

an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious; "the edict was subject to many interpretations"; "he annoyed us with his…

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Method noun · 78% connection

an acting technique introduced by Stanislavsky in which the actor recalls emotions or reactions from his or her own life and uses them…

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Method acting noun · 78% connection

an acting technique introduced by Stanislavsky in which the actor recalls emotions or reactions from his or her own life and uses them…

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Narration noun · 78% connection

a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radi…

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Narrative noun · 78% connection

a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radi…

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Rendering noun · 78% connection

an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious; "the edict was subject to many interpretations"; "he annoyed us with his…

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Rendition noun · 78% connection

an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious; "the edict was subject to many interpretations"; "he annoyed us with his…

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Revisionism noun · 78% connection

any dangerous departure from the teachings of Marx

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Academical adjective · 78% connection

Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: school.
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Academy noun · 78% connection

An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a ra…

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Classroom noun · 78% connection

a room in a school where lessons take place

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Clinic noun · 78% connection

A school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in th…

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Constitutional psychology noun · 78% connection

(Psychology) a school of thought postulating that the personality of an individual is dependent on the type of their physique (somatot…

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Dame noun · 78% connection

The mistress of a family in common life, or the mistress of a common school; as, a dame's school.

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Desegregate verb · 78% connection

open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups; "This school is completely desegregated"

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Elementary education noun · 78% connection

education in elementary subjects (reading and writing and arithmetic) provided to young students at a grade school

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Gymnasium noun · 78% connection

A school for the higher branches of literature and science; a preparatory school for the university; -- used esp. of German schools of…

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Head teacher noun · 78% connection

the educator who has executive authority for a school; "she sent unruly pupils to see the principal"

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: school.
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Idiom noun · 78% connection

the style of a particular artist or school or movement; "an imaginative orchestral idiom"

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: school.
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Improvement noun · 78% connection

a condition superior to an earlier condition; "the new school represents a great improvement"

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: school.
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Law noun · 78% connection

the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system; "he studied…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: school.
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Montem noun · 78% connection

A custom, formerly practiced by the scholars at Eton school, England, of going every third year, on Whittuesday, to a hillock near the…

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Neo-evolutionism noun · 78% connection

school of anthropology concerned with long-term culture change and with the similar patterns of development that may be seen in unrela…

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Neobehaviorism noun · 78% connection

a school of psychology based on the general principles of behaviorism but broader and more flexible in concept. It stresses experiment…

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Neoevolutionism noun · 78% connection

school of anthropology concerned with long-term culture change and with the similar patterns of development that may be seen in unrela…

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Partnership noun · 78% connection

a cooperative relationship between people or groups who agree to share responsibility for achieving some specific goal; "effective lan…

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