erudite

Day 15Level 2

EHR-yuh-dite

scholarly

well-educated, learned

Part of Speech: adjective

Synonyms:

scholarly, literate

Antonyms:

uneducated

Example Sentence:

Alistair told Sandra that he has a collection of erudite literary books which he read while studying the humanities in college.

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