knack
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3.9
- noun
- /næk/
- Mom always had a knack for finding lost stuff.
- a knack for finding
- get the knack
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Watch on YouTubeYou have a great knack of asking good questions.
- You have a great knack of asking good questions.
- When did you develop this knack to be so great at public speaking?
- There's a lot of things where having sort of an intuitive knack for it is useful.
- It's because we got lucky or we have a certain knack for getting things right in those ways.
- But don't you understand, guys like me and you, we just have a knack to make money.
- Nature is too, but we have this like special kind of knack for it.
- James, it's quite hard to explain, but he just had this fucking knack with me.
- Oh, I got this down to a knack now.
- Is there any sort of system or or discipline or some sort of knack that can open things up for us and make things clear?
- And I think a great example of this is Boris Johnson, that he's got this this real knack for metaphor.
- This man who never showed me much affection but gave me a knack for solitude which has been mostly useful.
- I, I, I feel like you and I could work effectively because you, you have this knack for taking an idea and yes, anding it to something.
- The difference is you seem to have a knack to be able to drag yourself out of the philosophy and get yourself into action.
Examples
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Second, they should have a knack for seeing and making connections among students.
Academic text (2013) -
Yes, I do seem to have a knack for it.
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You have a great knack of asking good questions.
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When did you develop this knack to be so great at public speaking?
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It's because we got lucky or we have a certain knack for getting things right in those ways.
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The Japanese have a knack for making people talk.
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And I had a knack for being the person they needed me to be.
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I seemed to have a knack for the jump shot and got pretty good at it.
Fiction book (1993) -
He just had a real knack for drama.
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She has a unique knack for solving complex math problems.
Synonyms
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1.0
Ability to do something well because of practice or training
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1.2
An ability someone has naturally to do something well
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3.6
A natural ability to do something well
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2.9
An ability someone is born with to do something well
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3.4
A talent someone is born with that they do not learn
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6.1
A natural ability to do something well
A natural liking or talent for something like music
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Etymology
Knack may come from old sound words like knock or snap, which mean a sudden or 'quick' action. So a knack is like a quick, neat 'trick' or useful move that helps you do something easily.