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The study found that video games improve hand dexterity and mental spatial ability.dexterity = adroitness (skill) -- physical and/or mental
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But what sort of trap have they laid that requires such dexterity? (source)dexterity = nimbleness (skill in moving)
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Once inside, Mack methodically shed the layers of outerwear as best he could, his half-frozen fingers responding with about as much dexterity as oversized clubs at the ends of his arms. (source)dexterity = adroitness (skill)
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Mary didn't realize until months later that he'd been studying her hands, checking their dexterity and strength to see how they'd stand up to hours of delicate cutting, scraping, tweezing, and pipetting. (source)dexterity = nimbleness (skill in moving)
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He dexterously pulled his feet out of the valenki, (source)dexterously = adroitly (skillfully)
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All the buildings and trees seemed easily practicable to such dexterous climbers as the Morlocks, (source)dexterous = physically adroit (skillful in movements)
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I mean it takes a good bit of dexterity to pull a thread out of the fabric all in one piece.† (source)
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He was famed for great knowledge and skill in horsemanship, being as dexterous on horseback as a Tartar. (source)dexterous = skillful
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For an hour the board shuffled figures dexterously.† (source)dexterously = adroitly (skillfully)
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In the last analysis, however, it was not Jefferson or the "dextrous" Burr who defeated Adams so much as the Federalist war faction and the rampaging Hamilton.† (source)
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") He thrust the syringe into the tube, he withdrew the piston dextrously with his index finger, and lectured: "Take one half c.c. of the culture.† (source)unconventional spelling: This is more commonly spelled dexterously.
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All this academic art is far worse than the trade in sham antique furniture; for the man who sells me an oaken chest which he swears was made in the XIII century, though as a matter of fact he made it himself only yesterday, at least does not pretend that there are any modern ideas in it, whereas your academic copier of fossils offers them to you as the latest outpouring of the human spirit, and, worst of all, kidnaps young people as pupils and persuades them that his limitations are rules, his observances dexterities, his timidities good taste, and his emptinesses purities.† (source)
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"Ah!" said Amelia "She hasn't a friend in the world," Jos went on, not undexterously, "and she said she thought she might trust in you.† (source)undexterously = not adroitly (not skillfully)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undexterously means not and reverses the meaning of dexterously. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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This operation demanded the dexterity of a watchmaker.† (source)
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The blind assassin begins very slowly to touch her, with one hand only, the right — the dexterous hand, the knife hand.† (source)dexterous = skillful
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ELESIN dances towards the market-place as he chants the story of the Not-I bird, his voice changing dexterously to mimic his characters.† (source)dexterously = adroitly (skillfully)
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