proficient
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- adjective
- /prəˈfɪʃənt/
- Set a challenging pace for your students to become proficient readers from day one.
- proficient reader
- proficient student
- proficient skills
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Watch on YouTubeSo her playing was entirely proficient, but entirely cold.
- So her playing was entirely proficient, but entirely cold.
- How did you get so proficient in French and English?
- They're young and they're technically really proficient and they've been amazing.
- It's just about how to become proficient with whatever tool you picked.
- Some people are actually saying you want to write that you are a proficient prompter.
- Like, you can't deprive them of becoming, you know, proficient in that language.
- I don't recommend this because most people aren't good enough to be proficient with it.
- And so, and I don't think the intelligence community is at all proficient in dealing with that.
- The typical family airplane doesn't get flown as often and the pilot isn't as proficient.
- Once you get proficient at typing, you almost stop experiencing the keyboard.
- And in so doing, like any teacher, as you teach your craft, then you become more proficient in it.
- So if they are not as proficient, that means that they might not be as good, they might not be as up to snuff.
- But in college, students are expected to become proficient in a foreign language, able to converse in it and read its literature.
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Usually you have to pass some type of exam to show that you're somewhat proficient in French, German, and Russian.
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She became proficient in playing the guitar after years of practice.
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How did you get so proficient in French and English?
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How proficient are you in English?
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By 2014, all students were expected to reach the level of "proficient" in reading and math.
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And about seven years in, I was pretty proficient in everything that was related to pro wrestling.
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The sociocultural context of reading at the secondary level requires students to be proficient independent readers.
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Navigation involves the proficient use of a variety of text-creation techniques and tools.
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You don't have to be proficient in music to sound decent in an app like GarageBand.
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The hand and finger movements of novice and proficient keyboard operators are noticeably different.
Academic text (1992)
Synonyms
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Skilled at something and able to do it well
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Able to do something well because of skill or training
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Having special training and ability to do a job well
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Very skilled and knowing a lot about a particular area
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Able to do a job well because of skill and knowledge
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A person who is very skilled at an activity like music or sport
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Able to do something well
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Good at doing something because of practice and careful control
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Someone who has a lot of skill because they did something many times
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Expressing yourself easily and clearly in speech, writing, or performance
Antonyms
How Skilled
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Proficient comes from Latin parts pro- ('forward') and facere ('to make' or 'to do'), so it originally meant 'to make progress'. That's why a proficient person is skilled: they have moved forward and built their ability.