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Word entry · 10 letters

proficient

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10 lettersPronunciation /pɹəˈfɪʃ.ənt/Part of speech adjectiveSorted cefiinoprtStarts with PEnds with T1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Filled answer is this word (PROFICIENT).

Definitions

  1. having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude

Word origin

From Latin proficiens, present participle of proficere (“to go forward, advance, make progress, succeed, be profitable or useful”), from pro (“forth, forward”) + facere (“to make, do”); see fact.

Used in a sentence

  • He was a proficient writer with an interest in human nature.
  • The colonel now addressed me, […] adding, "I hope we shall send you to your regiment up the country quite a proficient, and calculated to reflect credit on your instructors in the Zubberdust Bullumteers."
  • Why not subpoena as well the clerical proficients?

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