Another Word For ACQUIRING_NEW_SKILLS

training

Noun : The activity of imparting and acquiring skills.

Noun : Action of the verb to train.

Noun : The result of good social upbringing.

sponge

Noun : (countable) Any of various marine invertebrates of the phylum Porifera, that have a porous skeleton often of silica.

Noun : (countable) A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often made of plastic).

Noun : (uncountable) The porous material that synthetic washing sponges are made of.

quick study

Noun : (idiomatic) One who is capable of learning at a fast pace; a fast learner.

Noun : (obsolete) An actor who is able to learn their lines in a short amount of time.

Noun : Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see slow, study.

retraining

Noun : New or different training, or training in a new field.

set up

Verb : (transitive) To make ready for use.

Verb : (transitive) To arrange logically.

Verb : (transitive) To cause to happen.

retrain

Verb : (ambitransitive) To train again; especially, to train or study in a new subject or job

Noun : An instance of training again.

competencies

Noun : The ability to perform some task; competence.

Noun : (law) An individual's capacity to understand the nature and implications of their legal rights and obligations.

Noun : (linguistics) Implicit knowledge of a language’s structure.

knowledge

Noun : The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc.

Noun : Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something.

Noun : Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information.

learn

Verb : To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.

Verb : To attend a course or other educational activity.

Verb : To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.

education

Noun : (uncountable) The process of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.

Noun : (countable) Facts, skills and ideas that have been learned, especially through formal instruction.

Noun : (now rare) Upbringing, rearing.

learning

Noun : (uncountable) An act in which something is learned.

Noun : (uncountable) Accumulated knowledge.

Noun : (countable, proscribed) Something that has been learned.

acquisition

Noun : The act or process of acquiring.

Noun : The thing acquired or gained; a gain.

Noun : (computing) The process of sampling signals that measure real world physical conditions and converting these signals into digital numeric values that can be manipulated by a computer.

acquirement

Noun : The act or fact of acquiring something; acquisition.

Noun : (now rare, chiefly in the plural) Something that has been acquired; an attainment or accomplishment.

aging

Noun : The process of becoming older or more mature.

Adjective : Becoming elderly.

Noun : (gerontology) The accumulation of damage to macromolecules, cells, tissues and organs with the passage of time; the progressing loss of health, mobility, vibrancy and body functionality, resulting in biological death.

ageing

Noun : UK, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa standard spelling of aging.

Adjective : UK, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa standard spelling of aging.

gain

Verb : (intransitive) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress.

Verb : (transitive) To acquire possession of.

Verb : (transitive) To increase.

practice

Noun : Repetition of an activity to improve a skill.

Noun : (uncountable, especially medicine, art) The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts.

Noun : An organized event for the purpose of performing such repetition.

practise

Verb : (transitive) To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.

Verb : (intransitive) To repeat an activity in this way.

Verb : To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.

practising

Adjective : Engaged in the practice of some activity or profession.

Noun : The act of one who practises.

Adjective : (law) Relating to the practice of law by a legal practitioner; specifically, relating to a legal practitioner's status of being currently certified to practise law.

purchase

Noun : The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.

Noun : That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.

Verb : To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.

ripening

Noun : The process of becoming ripe.

study

Verb : (usually academic, transitive, intransitive) To review materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them, usually in preparation for an examination.

Verb : (academic, transitive) To take a course or courses on a subject.

Verb : (transitive) To acquire knowledge on a subject with the intention of applying it in practice.

takeover

Noun : (economics) The purchase of one company by another; a merger without the formation of a new company, especially where some stakeholders in the purchased company oppose the purchase.

Noun : (economics, UK) The acquisition of a public company whose shares are listed on a stock exchange, in contrast to the acquisition of a private company.

Noun : A time or event in which control or authority, especially over a facility is passed from one party to the next.

skill

Noun : A capacity to do something well; a technique, an ability, usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities that are regarded as innate.

Adjective : (UK, slang) Great, excellent.

Verb : (video games) To spend acquired points in exchange for skills.

potential

Noun : A currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to).

Adjective : Existing in possibility, not in actuality.

Noun : (physics) The gravitational potential: the radial (irrotational, static) component of a gravitational field, also known as the Newtonian potential or the gravitoelectric field.

skillfulness

Noun : The state or quality of being adept or skillful.

capacity

Noun : The ability to hold, receive, or absorb.

Noun : The maximum amount that can be held.

Noun : A measure of such ability; volume.

develop

Verb : (transitive) To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.

Verb : (ambitransitive) To progress through a sequence of stages.

Verb : (intransitive) To change with a specific direction, progress.

development

Noun : (uncountable) The process of developing; growth, directed change.

Noun : (countable) Something which has developed.

Noun : (uncountable) The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).

expertise

Noun : Great skill or knowledge in a particular field or hobby.

Noun : Advice, or opinion, of an expert.

Verb : (transitive, rare) To supply with expert knowledge or advice.

man

Noun : An adult male human.

Noun : (collective) All human males collectively: mankind.

Noun : An adult male who belongs to a particular group: an employee, a representative, etc.

sport

Noun : (countable, uncountable) Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.

Noun : (countable) A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.

Noun : (countable) Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.

work

Noun : (uncountable) Employment.

Noun : Labour, occupation, job.

Noun : The place where one is employed.

ability

Noun : (uncountable) The quality or state of being able; capacity to do or of doing something; having the necessary power.

Noun : (countable) A skill or competence in doing; mental power; talent; aptitude.

Noun : (uncountable) A unique power of the mind; a faculty.

leadership

Noun : The capacity of someone to lead others.

Noun : The office or status of a leader.

Noun : A group of leaders.

receptive

Adjective : Ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas.

Adjective : Capable of receiving something.

Adjective : (zoology) Of a female animal (especially a mammal): prepared to mate; in heat, in oestrus.

able

Adjective : Having the necessary powers or the needed resources to accomplish a task.

Adjective : Free from constraints preventing completion of task; permitted to; not prevented from.

Adjective : Gifted with skill, intelligence, knowledge, or competence.

humanities

Noun : The study of language, literature, the arts, history, and philosophy, sometimes including religion.

Noun : (obsolete) Synonym of classical studies: the study of Ancient Greek and Latin, their literature, etc.

clinic

Noun : A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.

Noun : (medicine, by extension) A hospital session to diagnose or treat patients.

Noun : A group practice of several physicians or other health professionals.

trained

Adjective : Having undergone a course of training (sometimes in combination).

Adjective : Manipulated in shape or habit.

ahead

Verb : At or towards the front; in the direction one is facing or moving.

Verb : So as to be further advanced, either spatially or in an abstract sense; to be superior.

Verb : In or for the future.

attainment

Noun : The act of attaining; the act of arriving at or reaching; the act of obtaining by exertion or effort.

Noun : That which is attained, or obtained by exertion.

beginner

Noun : Someone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started.

Noun : Someone who sets something in motion.

Noun : (theater) An actor who is present on stage in the first moments of a play.

case

Noun : An actual event, situation, or fact.

Noun : A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession; the set of tasks involved in addressing the situation of a specific person or event.

Noun : (academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.

discover

Verb : (transitive) To find or learn something for the first time.

Verb : (transitive, chess) To create by moving a piece out of another piece's line of attack.

Verb : (transitive, law) To question (a person) as part of discovery in a lawsuit.

discovered

Adjective : no longer concealed; uncovered as by opening a curtain; `discovered' is archaic and primarily a theater ter

Adjective : discovered or determined by scientific observatio

experiment

Noun : A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried.

Verb : (intransitive) To conduct an experiment.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To test or ascertain by experiment; to try out; to make an experiment on.

experimenting

Noun : experimentation

intern

Noun : A student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field.

Noun : A medical student or recent graduate working in a hospital as a final part of medical training.

Verb : (intransitive) To work as an intern, usually with little or no pay or other legal prerogatives of employment, and for the purpose of furthering a program of education.

modeling

Noun : The profession of someone who models clothes.

Noun : The art of sculpting models from clay etc. to create a representation of something.

Noun : The representation of depth in a two-dimensional image.

orient

Verb : (transitive) To build or place (something) so as to face eastward.

Verb : (transitive, by extension) To align or place (a person or object) so that his, her, or its east side, north side, etc., is positioned toward the corresponding points of the compass; (specifically, surveying) to rotate (a map attached to a plane table) until the line of direction between any two of its points is parallel to the corresponding direction in nature.

Verb : (transitive, often reflexive, figuratively) To familiarize (oneself or someone) with a circumstance or situation.

oriented

Adjective : Having a specific orientation (positioning or direction).

Adjective : (often with with or in) Having had an orientation (an introduction to a topic or place).

Adjective : (in compounds) Having (something) as a primary concern or guiding principle; focused on (something).

orienteering

Noun : (sports) The act of racing across unfamiliar place using a map and compass.

orienting

Adjective : positioning with respect to a reference system or determining your bearings physically or intellectuall

power

Noun : The ability to do or undergo something.

Noun : (social) The ability to coerce, influence, or control.

Noun : (countable) The ability to affect or influence.

rate

Noun : The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another.

Noun : The price of (an individual) thing; cost.

Noun : A set price or charge for all examples of a given case, commodity, service etc.

receive

Verb : (transitive) To be given, sent, or paid something.

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To accept into the mind; to understand.

Verb : (transitive, dated) To take, as something that is offered; to accept.

received

Adjective : Generally accepted as correct or true.

renascent

Adjective : Experiencing renewed vigor; being reborn.

Adjective : (of a cultural practice, etc.) Revived, brought back.

sunrise

Noun : The time of day when the sun appears above the eastern horizon.

Noun : The change in color of the sky at dawn.

Noun : (figuratively) Any great awakening.

grip

Verb : (transitive or intransitive) To take hold (of), particularly with the hand.

Noun : A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.

Noun : (uncountable) Ability to resist slippage when pressed in contact with another object or surface.

magus

Noun : (Zoroastrianism) A Zoroastrian priest.

Noun : A magician; (derogatory) a conjurer or sorcerer, especially one who is a charlatan or trickster.

try out

Verb : (intransitive) To undergo a test before being selected; to audition.

Verb : (transitive) To test (something) to see how it works or whether it is suitable.

tryout

Noun : A test of the suitability or effectiveness of a person or thing, especially an audition for a performer or athlete, or the advance staging of a play at a small theatre.

vascularization

Noun : (medicine) the formation of blood vessels and capillaries in living tissue

Noun : (botany) the formation of leaf veins

Noun : the process of being vascularized.

accomplishment

Noun : Something accomplished; an achievement.

Noun : The act of accomplishing; completion; fulfilment.

Noun : That which completes, perfects, or equips thoroughly; acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education or training.

auspice

Noun : (chiefly in the plural) Patronage or protection.

Verb : (transitive) To be patron of; to sponsor.

Noun : An omen or a sign.

binder

Noun : Someone who binds.

Noun : Someone who binds books; a bookbinder.

Noun : A cover or holder for unbound papers, pages, etc.

block

Noun : A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.

Noun : A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.

Noun : A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.

carrie

Noun : A diminutive of the female given name Caroline, also used as a formal given name.

Noun : A surname.

Noun : An unincorporated community in Knott County, Kentucky, United States.

compensate

Verb : To pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration.

Verb : (ambitransitive) To make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct, satisfy; to reach an agreement such that the scales are literally or (metaphorically) balanced; to equalize or make even.

Verb : To adjust or adapt to a change, often a harm or deprivation.

compulsory purchase

Noun : (law, UK, Ireland) The power of a state to expropriate private land within its jurisdiction for public use.

educated

Adjective : Having attained a level of higher education, such as a college degree.

Adjective : Based on relevant information.

interning

Noun : (programming) Practice of always using references instead of copies of equal objects.

interosculant

Adjective : Mutually touching or intersecting.

master builder

Noun : A person who is adept at overseeing the construction a building using the plans drawn by an architect

necromancy

Noun : Loosely, any sorcery or witchcraft, especially involving death or the dead, particularly sorcery involving raising or reanimating the dead.

Noun : Divination involving the dead or death.

Noun : (Internet) Synonym of necroposting.

newsmonger

Noun : (colloquial) A newshound; a journalist.

Noun : A news junkie; a gossip.

parity

Noun : (uncountable) Equality; comparability of strength or intensity.

Noun : (mathematics, countable) A set with the property of having all of its elements belonging to one of two disjoint subsets, especially a set of integers split in subsets of even and odd elements.

Noun : (mathematics, countable) The classification of an element of a set with parity into one of the two sets.

polymorphism

Noun : (object-oriented programming) A feature pertaining to the dynamic treatment of data elements based on their type, allowing for a method to have several definitions.

Noun : The ability to assume different forms or shapes.

Noun : (biology) The coexistence, in the same locality, of two or more distinct forms independent of sex, not connected by intermediate gradations, but produced from common parents.

preparatory

Adjective : Of or pertaining to preparation, having the purpose of making something or someone ready, preparative.

rated

Adjective : (in combinations) Having a particular rating or rate

Adjective : (engineering) maximum (load, voltage, etc.) under which a device can function properly

Adjective : (now rare) Scolded, rebuked.

rates

Noun : (British, New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong) Taxes, usually on property, levied by local government.

Noun : (informal) Abbreviation of interest rates.

refind

Verb : To find something again.

second sight

Noun : An additional sense beyond the five normal ones; the ability to see things that are not detectable by normal sight; clairvoyance; extrasensory perception.

Noun : Synonym of senopia.

shipwright

Noun : A person who designs, builds and repairs ships, especially wooden ones.

shrivel

Verb : (intransitive) To become wrinkled.

Verb : (intransitive) To collapse inward; to crumble.

Verb : (transitive) To draw into wrinkles.

shrivelled

Adjective : Collapsed in size.

Adjective : Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant.

skilled

Adjective : Having or showing skill; skillful.

Adjective : Requiring special abilities or training.

striker

Noun : A person who is on strike, someone who has stopped working as a protest.

Noun : Someone or something that hits someone or something else.

Noun : A blacksmith's assistant who wields the sledgehammer.

suss

Verb : (transitive, UK, Australia, New Zealand, often with "out") To discover, infer or figure out.

Verb : (transitive, UK, Australia, New Zealand) To study or size up, to check out (examine).

Adjective : (UK, Australia, New Zealand, US, colloquial) Suspicious; suspect.

trust

Noun : Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.

Noun : Dependence upon something in the future; hope.

Noun : Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.

trusted

Adjective : reliable

virescence

Noun : The act of becoming green; greening.

Noun : Greenishness.

Noun : (biology) The abnormal development of green pigmentation in plants that are not normally green, like flowers and shoots. It may indicate phytoplasma infection.

windmill

Noun : A machine which translates linear motion of wind to rotational motion by means of adjustable vanes called sails.

Noun : The building or structure containing such machinery.

Noun : (colloquial, proscribed) A wind turbine, a device for converting wind power into electricity.

wrangle

Verb : (transitive) To convince or influence (someone) by arguing or contending.

Verb : (transitive) Followed by out of: to elicit (something) from a person by arguing or bargaining.

Verb : (transitive) (Western US) To herd (horses or other livestock).

born

Adjective : Having from birth (or as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited.

Noun : A surname from English.

Verb : (Geordie) Alternative spelling of burn (with fire etc.) [(transitive) To cause to be consumed by fire.]

bud

Noun : (usually uncountable, slang) Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the "bud"), or marijuana generally.

Noun : (US, Canada, Australia, slang, usually in the plural) Cannabis that has been taken from the flowering part of the plant intended to be smoked.

Noun : (US, Canada, Australia, slang, uncountable) Marijuana.

cash

Noun : (uncountable) Money in the form of notes or bills and coins, as opposed to checks, credit or electronic transactions.

Noun : (uncountable, informal) Money.

Noun : (uncountable, finance) Liquid assets, money that can be traded quickly, as distinct from assets that are invested and cannot be easily exchanged.

catechumen

Noun : A convert to Christianity under instruction before baptism; a young or recent Christian preparing for confirmation.

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