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vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cognizance | an awareness;knowledge |
| Cohere | to fit or stick together effectively |
| conjecture | an informed guess |
| dialectic | the process of intellectual investigation by rational dialogue and debate |
| erudite | extremely well-educated and knowledgeable |
| focal | concerning the center of interest or activity |
| glean | to gather together bit by bit |
| incisive | perceiving and expressing an idea keenly and forcefully |
| infer | to draw a conclusion from evidence |
| mentality | an outlook; a way of understanding the world |
| Muse | to meditate or reflect upon |
| perception | the result of seeing or observing something; awareness |
| percipient | having keen insight and understanding |
| premise | an element or proposition on which other assertions are based |
| qualm | a feeling of uneasiness or doubt |
| quandary | a state of doubt or confusion |
| reverie | a pleasant and dreamy state of thinking; a daydream |
| ruminate | to think something over repeatedly and slowly |
| surmise | to suspect, assume, or guess |
| transcend | to go beyond or rise above |