WORD OF THE DAY
Someone who's extremely proficient or knowledgeable about a particular subject can be called a cognoscente. Your deep appreciation for the books of J.R.R. Tolkien makes you a cognoscente of Lord of the Rings.
This word is often used in its plural form, cognoscenti, referring to a whole class of experts or connoisseurs: "The cognoscenti of sports disagree about who was the greatest basketball player in history." Cognoscente comes to English from Italian and goes back to a Latin root, cognoscere, "get to know." Spend a little extra time learning your word lists, and you'll soon be a cognoscente of vocabulary!
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Vocabulary lists containing cognoscente
Knowledge is power, so learn these words that derive from the Latin roots cogn and conn, meaning "know, learn."
"Tom Hiddleson Swallowed a Dictionary" begins a recent headline on Bustle, introducing a compilation of Hiddleston's greatest feats of vocabulary derring-do, words "guaranteed to make you swoon."
