acquisition of skill &c 698; acquirement, attainment; edification,
scholarship, erudition; acquired knowledge, lore, wide information;
self-instruction; study, reading, perusal; inquiry &c 451.
apprenticeship, prenticeship†; pupilage, pupilarity†; tutelage,
novitiate, matriculation.
docility &c (willingness) 602; aptitude &c 698.
V. learn; acquire knowledge, gain knowledge, receive knowledge, take in
knowledge, drink in knowledge, imbibe knowledge, pick up knowledge,
gather knowledge, get knowledge, obtain knowledge, collect knowledge,
glean knowledge, glean information, glean learning.
acquaint oneself with, master; make oneself master of, make
oneself acquainted with; grind, cram; get up, coach up; learn by heart,
learn by rote.
read, spell, peruse; con over, pore over, thumb over; wade
through; dip into; run the eye over, run the eye through; turn over the
leaves.
study; be studious &c adj.. [study intensely] burn the midnight
oil, consume the midnight oil, mind one's book; cram.
go to school, go to college, go to the university; matriculate;
serve an apprenticeship, serve one's apprenticeship, serve one's time;
learn one's trade; be informed &c 527; be taught &c 537.
[stop going to school voluntarily (intransitive)] drop out, leave
school, quit school; graduate; transfer; take a leave.
[cause to stop going to school (transitive)] dismiss, expel, kick
out of school.
[stop going to school involuntarily] flunk out; be dismissed &c
Adj. studious; scholastic, scholarly; teachable; docile &c (willing)
602; apt &c 698, industrious &c 682.
Adv. at one's books; in statu pupillari &c (learner) 541 [Lat.].
Phr. a lumber-house of books in every head [Pope]; ancora imparo!
[Lat.]; hold high converse with the mighty dead [Thomson]; lash'd into
Latin by the tingling rod [Gay].