| A | B |
|---|
| abstruse | difficult to understand |
| acumen | quickness and keenness of insight or judgment |
| ascertain | to discover or determine with certainty, espcially through examination |
| cerebral | of or relating to the brain, appealing to or requiring the use if intellect; intellectual |
| faculty | a natural power or ability, a division of a university or group of teachers |
| obfuscate | to make difficult to understand; to darken; to make difficult to see |
| ruminate | to think deeply about; to chew cud, or partially digested food |
| stymie | to prevent from making progress; to frustrate or thwart efforts |
| surmise | to guess; to draw a concludsion without sufficient evidence, a guess |
| tenet | a principle or belief held by a person or an organization |
