having acquired much knowledge through study. To get knowledge or skills by study or experience.

Place where something happens or is located. (Of the sun) to go lower than the horizon.

To make or become something else.

definite. To make a legal judgment in court.

Switch from one thing (e.g. religion) to another.

tending to crack and come away in thin pieces. removal of scales from something. To change the size of but keep the proportions.

assembled or made from whatever is available, and so unlikely to be of highest quality. A small cut or mark on a surface. To rub your skin with your nails to stop an itch.

before or by now or time in question.

operated by largely automatic equipment. To use machines to do tasks instead of people.

practice or science of collecting and analysing numerical data in large quantities. Mathematics used to interpret numerical data.

place, person, or thing from which something comes or can be obtained. obtain from particular source.

extremely bad or serious.

key fact, point, or idea to be remembered. Concession made by a labor union to a company that is trying to lower its expenditures.

imitate something while exaggerating its characteristic features for comic effect.