GENERAL KNOWLEDGE Synonyms

• the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill

• the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educational institutions and students); created 1979

• knowledge acquired by learning and instruction

• the gradual process of acquiring knowledge

• the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university)

• the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)

• education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge

• a movement in Europe from about 1650 until 1800 that advocated the use of reason and individualism instead of tradition and established doctrine

• (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness

• profound scholarly knowledge

• personal knowledge or information about someone or something

• usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known

• close or warm friendship

• a casual manner

• an act of undue intimacy

• a message received and understood

• knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction

• formal accusation of a crime

• a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn

• (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome

• the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience

• a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy

• secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy)

• information about recent and important events

• the operation of gathering information about an enemy

• the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge

• profound scholarly knowledge

• something of small importance

• the cognitive condition of someone who understands

• the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises

• an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion

• the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination

• characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy

• accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment

• an Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom; although ascribed to Solomon it was probably written in the first century BC

• the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight

• ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight

• the quality of being prudent and sensible

• a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred

• a statement or assertion of verified information about something that is the case or has happened

• an event known to have happened or something known to have existed

• a concept whose truth can be proved

• knowledge that is available to anyone