Lesson 4 Flashcards

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Acumen

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Quickness and keeness of insight or judgement (noun)

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Ascertain

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To discover or determine certainty, especially with examination or experimentation (verb)
Ascertainable (adj)

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Cerebral

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A. Of or relating to the brain
B. Appealing to or requiring the use of intellect; intellectual (adj)
Cerebelum (noun)

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Faculty

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A. A natural power or ability

B. A division of a university or a group of teachers (noun)

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Obfuscate

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A. To make difficult to understand
B. To darken; to make dim or difficult to see (verb)
Obfuscation (noun)

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Ruminate

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A. To think deeply about; to turn a matter over and over in one’s mind
B. To chew cud, or partially digested food (noun)
Rumination (noun)

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Stymie

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To prevent from making progress; to frusturate or thwart efforts(verb)

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Surmise

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A. To guess; to draw a conclusion without sufficent evidence (verb)
B. A guess; a conclusion drawn without sufficent evidence (noun)

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Tenet

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A principle or belief held by a person or organization (noun)

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Abtruse

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Difficult to understand
(Adj)
Abtruseness (noun)

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