Meaning and example
someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action
The passage used "maverick" to mean someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 2.065 places maverick in the common range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 98.5% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
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avoiding waste
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cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of
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contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions
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a reciprocal relation between two or more things
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threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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