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  • 41awkwardness — [n1] clumsiness; inelegance amateurishness, artlessness, boorishness, cloddishness, coarseness, crudeness, gawkiness, gracelessness, greenness*, ignorance, inability, incompetence, ineptitude, ineptness, inexpertness, maladroitness, oafishness,… …

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  • 42mastery — [n] command, expertise ability, acquirement, adeptness, adroitness, attainment, capacity, cleverness, comprehension, cunning, deftness, dexterity, expertism, expertness, familiarity, finesse, genius, grasp, grip, ken, knack, know how, knowledge,… …

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  • 43Folklore Society —    The Folk Lore Society was founded in January 1878 (it kept the hyphen till 1968), and was thus the first society in the world devoted to the subject. There had been protracted correspondence in *N&Q in 1876 7, initiated by Eliza *Gutch ( St… …

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  • 44amateurish — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ incompetent; unskilful. DERIVATIVES amateurishly adverb amateurishness noun …

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  • 45amateurishly — amateurish ► ADJECTIVE ▪ incompetent; unskilful. DERIVATIVES amateurishly adverb amateurishness noun …

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  • 46amateurish — [am′ə choor΄ish, am΄ə tʉr′ish] adj. like an amateur; inexpert; unskillful amateurishly adv. amateurishness n …

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  • 47amateurish — adj. characteristic of an amateur, esp. unskilful or inexperienced. Derivatives: amateurishly adv. amateurishness n …

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  • 48unskillfulness — noun a lack of cognitive skill • Ant: ↑skillfulness • Derivationally related forms: ↑unskillful • Hypernyms: ↑inability • Hyponyms: ↑incoordination, ↑ …

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  • 49ABRAHAM BEN DAVID OF POSQUIÈRES — (known as Rabad, i.e., Rabbi Abraham Ben David; c. 1125–1198); talmudic authority in Provence. Abraham was born in Narbonne, and died in Posquières, a small city near Nîmes famous for the yeshivah he established there. He lived during a… …

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