Vocab

Abstruse

Difficult to understand

Acumen

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight

Adroit

Skillful and adept under pressing conditions

Ascertain

To discover with certainty;learn with certainty or assurance

Astute

Having or showing shrewdness and discernment

Callous

Emotionally hardened; unfeeling

Circumspect

watchful and discreet; cautious; prudent

Candid

Characterized by openness and sincerity of expression; unreservedly straightforward

conjecture

the formation or expression of an opinion or theory without sufficient evidence for proof

convoluted

complicated; intricately involved

Didactic

intended for instruction; instructive

Disseminate

to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed

Enigma

a puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation

Erudition

knowledge acquired by study, research

Euphemism

the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt

Extrapolate

to infer (an unknown) from something that is known; conjecture.

Husbandry

the cultivation and production of edible crops or of animals for food; agriculture; farming.

Incoherent

without logical or meaningful connection; disjointed; rambling: an incoherent sentence.

Inscrutable

incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.

Insinuate

to suggest or hint slyly

Lucid

easily understood; completely intelligible or comprehensible

Pedantic

overly concerned with minute details or formalisms

Perspicacious

having keen mental perception and understanding

Prospectus

a document describing the major features of a proposed literary work, project, business venture

Reticent

disposed to be silent or not to speak freely; reserved

Rhetoric

the art of influencing the thought and conduct of an audience

Rudimentary

pertaining to rudiments or first principles

Staid

fixed, settled, or permanent