LITERACIES Synonyms

• an authoritative direction or instruction to do something

• a military unit or region under the control of a single officer

• the power or authority to command

• availability for use

• a position of highest authority

• great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity

• (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program

• be in command of

• make someone do something

• demand as one's due

• look down on

• exercise authoritative control or power over

• 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)

• skillfulness by virtue of possessing special 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

• understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something

• the limit of capability

• an intellectual hold or understanding

• the act of grasping

• hold firmly

• get the meaning of something

• the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

• the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge

• profound scholarly knowledge

• great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity

• power to dominate or defeat

• the act of mastering or subordinating someone

• natural abilities or qualities

• a person who possesses unusual innate ability in some field or activity

• a practical method or art applied to some particular task

• skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity

• 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

• the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment

• possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done

• the action of accomplishing something

• an ability that has been acquired by training

• inherent ability

• the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally

• the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment

• an aptitude that may be developed

• the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually

• powerful and effective language

• skillfulness in speaking or writing

• the quality of being facile in speech and writing

• the quality of having great facility and competence

• skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity

• an ability that has been acquired by training

• ability to produce solutions in some problem domain