skill

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Skill, talent and ability
ability
accomplishment
accuracy
acumen
adroitness
chop
endowment
functional skills
functioning
genius
gift
greatness
proficiency
pyrotechnic
pyrotechnics
qualification
repertoire
repertory
speciality
workmanship

prowess | American Dictionary

prowess
noun[ U ]
us/ˈprɑʊ·ɪs/
great ability or skill:
athletic prowess

Examples of prowess

prowess
These were stories told and retold at night in the bagdiparas (hamlets), cherished and honoured for the daring, the physical prowess, the cunning.
Can the sensorimotor account of visual cognition explain the apparent representational prowess of young infants?
For example, the defensive prowess of village communities, particularly large ones, undoubtedly limited the trade, while periods of famine caused sharp spikes in volume.
In some cases the errors are small and might be deemed simply the result of a less-than-perfect arithmetic prowess.
The day was declared a general holiday, and citizens swarmed to the much-trumpeted display of regional and civic prowess.
Included in this stance is a value judgment about the worthiness of the goal of athletic prowess or physique.
The mutual acknowledgment of prowess can help to avert such clashes.
Just as public/private partnerships to develop genomic prowess are being reported almost daily, the hallmarks of business ethics must become part of the analysis.
At one point in the story, the marabout's soldiers are driven away by bees - a standard trope signifying spiritual prowess.
What level of prowess is meant by the word musicianship?
They list the following ingredients: the qualitative prowess of design representations, codification, explicit space, implicature, speed, backup, recall, and replay.
Our estimates make it abundantly clear that, whatever their other goals, party leaders live or die on the basis of their office-seeking prowess.
Furthermore, forager men may have married when comparatively young, since men's eligibility to marry depends heavily on economic prowess.
He also shows his prowess and fluency by using appropriately neutral and polite speech, according to my findings.
Reading here becomes a display of other-directed, sexualized prowess.
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