provenance

mastery
UK /ˈpɹɒ.və.nəns/ US /ˈpɹɑ.və.nəns/nounverb

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Within this melee of intersections between English and Cantonese, the students were able to navigate with perfect ease in communicative contexts where the provenance of a certain term or expression matters little.