| A | B |
| Abstruse | difficult to understand |
| Acumen | quickness and accuracy of judgement |
| Ascertain | to discover through examination |
| Cerebral | characterized by reason rather than emotion |
| Faculty | any of the powers possessed by the human mind |
| Relative | having pertinence or relevance |
| Ruminate | to mediate at length; ponder |
| Surmise | to conclude without sufficent evidence |
| Tenet | opinion, doctrine, or principle held as being true |
| Theoretical | of conclusions reached through logic |