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"sense": "ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "инвенти́вно̄ст"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "inventívnōst"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "vynaliezavosť"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ingenio"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "fyndighet"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "sinnrikhet"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "genialitet"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems",
"word": "beceri"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems",
"word": "hüner"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems",
"word": "marifet"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems",
"word": "ustalık"
}
],
"word": "ingenuity"
}
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