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Concatenate

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Link

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Rapt

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Absorbed, fascinated

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Conjecture

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  • to guess
  • surmise
  • assumption
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Rebus

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Puzzle, secret

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Reproof

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Oral or written statement intended to censure

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Ruminate

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Think about seriously

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Salient

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Noticeable, important

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Sapient

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Smart, judicious

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Sentient

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Conscious

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Syllogism

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Deductive reasoning

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Truncate

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Shorten

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Excogitate

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  • to study intently to comprehend fully

- devise, invent

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Canny

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  • careful, prudent

- skilled, expert

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Tenure

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The holding or possessing of anything

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Coalesce

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To unite/grow so as to form one mass, community, idea, etc.

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Gamut

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The entire scale or range

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Fallacious

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  • logically unsound

- deceptive, misleading

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Postulate

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To ask, demand, or claim

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Extrapolate

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Conjecture
Surmise
Speculate

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Labyrinth

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Maze