skill vs sovereign

skill

adj
  • Great, excellent. 

noun
  • Capacity to do something well; technique, ability. Skills are usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities, which are often thought of as innate. 

verb
  • To know; to understand. 

  • To have knowledge or comprehension; discern. 

  • To set apart; separate. 

  • To discern; have knowledge or understanding; to know how (to). 

  • To have personal or practical knowledge; be versed or practised; be expert or dextrous. 

  • To spend acquired points in exchange for skills. 

sovereign

adj
  • Exceptional in quality. 

  • Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount. 

  • Princely; royal. 

  • Having supreme, ultimate power. 

  • Exercising power of rule. 

verb
  • To rule over as a sovereign. 

noun
  • A large, garish ring; a sovereign ring. 

  • A very large champagne bottle with the capacity of about 25 liters, equivalent to 33+¹⁄₃ standard bottles. 

  • One who is not a subject to a ruler or nation. 

  • A monarch; the ruler of a country. 

  • A gold coin of the United Kingdom, with a nominal value of one pound sterling but in practice used as a bullion coin. 

  • A former Australian gold coin, minted from 1855–1931, of one pound value. 

  • Any butterfly of the tribe Nymphalini, or genus Basilarchia, as the ursula and the viceroy. 

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