specialty
specialties
A specialty is someone's strong suit or area of expertise. A restaurant’s best dish would be its specialty. If you love baking muffins, make that your specialty.
Magic Johnson was a great overall basketball player, but his specialty was passing the ball to teammates and getting assists. A specialty is a skill, strength, or asset someone has because of hard work. A doctor can have a specialty such as cardiology. A restaurant will usually have a specialty, which is a unique meal they're known for making. Just like special things have something unique or great about them, specialties are something a person or place does well.
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an asset of special worth or utility
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synonyms:
forte, long suit, metier, speciality, strength, strong point, strong suit
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Antonyms:
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weak point
an attribute that is inadequate or deficient
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types:
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green fingers, green thumb
a special ability to make plants grow
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weak point
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the special line of work you have adopted as your career
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synonyms:
specialisation, specialism, speciality, specialization
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a distinguishing trait
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synonyms:
distinctiveness, peculiarity, speciality, specialness
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types:
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foible, idiosyncrasy, mannerism
a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual
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type of:
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individualism, individuality, individuation
the quality of being individual
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foible, idiosyncrasy, mannerism
Vocabulary lists containing specialty
This collection of wacky tales explores the lives of the zany students and teachers at Wayside School.
When his mother is deported, twelve-year-old Efrén must take on new responsibilities, including caring for his younger siblings. Here are links to our lists for the novel: Chapters 1–5, Chapters 6–11, Chapters 12–19
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