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Another word for bookworm

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Noun
      1. An idiot savant.
      2. A person with a severe developmental disorder or other major mental disability who possesses some remarkable aptitude, as for memorization, rapid mental calculation, art, or music
      3. A person with savant syndrome.
      1. A lover of books.
      2. One who obsessively collects books, not necessarily due to any interest in reading them.
      3. A person who loves or admires books, esp. for their style of binding, printing, etc.
      1. Any of various devices that read or retrieve data from a storage device or credit card.
      2. A schoolbook containing stories, poems, etc. for use in teaching how to read
      3. A person who regularly reads certain material:
    See also:

    bibliophile

    reader

    scholar

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Sentence Examples

  • bookworm word building game.

  • Over two and a half years in the making and with a budget of $700,000 (more than seven times the norm), Bookworm Adventures is the result of countless hours of brainstorming, tweaking and refining.

  • When the book meter above the bookworm is full, you move on to the next round where the words become a little harder to find, and other challenges may be thrown your way.

  • You'll probably find mesh briefs on the "player" types in the clubs, but you could be surprised to take the Clark Kent-esque bookworm back to your place and discover that he, too, is a big fan of see-through skivvies.

  • At five he was a bookworm.

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