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knowledge acquired by study, research, etc.; learning; scholarship.
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Erudition
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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- If erudition and populism mixed giddily that day, so did thoroughness and irrelevance.
- Despite these shortcomings, Bryson's erudition is evident and refreshing.
- Historiographical concerns born of immense erudition structure the book.
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erudition
c.1400, from L. eruditionem, noun of action from erudire (see erudite).
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