Vocabulary

Assess

Assess - verb estimate the value of (property) for taxation; charge (a person or a property) with a payment, such as a tax or a fine; place a value on; judge the worth of something; set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine)

Assume

Assume - verb take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect; take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof; take up someone's soul into heaven; occupy or take on; seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession; take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities; put clothing on one's body; make a pretence of; take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person

Baffle

Baffle - noun a flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy; verb check the emission of (sound); be a mystery or bewildering to; hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of

Biased

Biased - adj. favoring one person or side over another

Concentrate

Concentrate - noun a concentrated example; a concentrated form of a foodstuff; the bulk is reduced by removing water; the desired mineral that is left after impurities have been removed from mined ore; verb make (the solvent of a solution) dense or denser; direct one's attention on something; draw together or meet in one common center; cook until very little liquid is left; be cooked until very little liquid is left; make more concise; compress or concentrate; make central

Consider

Consider - verb regard or treat with consideration, respect, and esteem; take into consideration for exemplifying purposes; think about carefully; weigh; show consideration for; take into account; judge or regard; look upon; judge; deem to be; look at carefully; study mentally; look at attentively; give careful consideration to

Contemplate

Contemplate - verb consider as a possibility; look at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought; reflect deeply on a subject; think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes

Cynical

Cynical - adj. believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others

Deduce

Deduce - verb reason by deduction; establish by deduction; conclude by reasoning; in logic

Deliberate

Deliberate - adj. by conscious design or purpose; marked by careful consideration or reflection; with care and dignity; produced or marked by conscious design or premeditation; carefully thought out in advance; verb discuss the pros and cons of an issue; think about carefully; weigh

Dilemma

Dilemma - noun state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options

Discriminate

Discriminate - adj. marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions; noting distinctions with nicety; verb recognize or perceive the difference; distinguish; treat differently on the basis of sex or race

Dubious

Dubious - adj. not convinced; fraught with uncertainty or doubt; open to doubt or suspicion

Estimate

Estimate - noun a judgment of the qualities of something or somebody; an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth; the respect with which a person is held; a statement indicating the likely cost of some job; a document appraising the value of something (as for insurance or taxation); verb judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time); judge to be probable

Faith

Faith - noun loyalty or allegiance to a cause or a person; complete confidence in a person or plan etc; a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny; an institution to express belief in a divine power

Gather

Gather - noun the act of gathering something; sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching; verb conclude from evidence; look for (food) in nature; draw fabric together and sew it tightly; assemble or get together; collect or gather; collect in one place; get people together

Genius

Genius - noun exceptional creative ability; someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality; unusual mental ability; a natural talent; someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field

Grasp

Grasp - noun the act of grasping; a firm controlling influence; the limit of capability; understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something; verb hold firmly; get the meaning of something

Guesswork

Guesswork - noun an estimate based on little or no information

Hunch

Hunch - noun the act of bending yourself up together; an impression that something might be the case; verb arch one's back

Ideology

Ideology - noun imaginary or visionary theorization; an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation

Ingeniuos

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Inspiration

Inspiration - noun arousing to a particular emotion or action; a product of your creative thinking and work; a sudden intuition as part of solving a problem; arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity; the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing; (theology) a special influence of a divinity on the minds of human beings

Intuition

Intuition - noun instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes); an impression that something might be the case

Justify

Justify - verb adjust the spaces between words; show to be right by providing justification or proof; show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for; defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning; let off the hook

Naive

Naive - adj. inexperienced; marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience; not initiated; deficient in relevant experience; lacking information or instruction; of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style

Notion

Notion - noun (usually plural) small personal articles or clothing or sewing items; a general inclusive concept; an odd or fanciful or capricious idea; a vague idea in which some confidence is placed

Opstimistic

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Paradox

Paradox - noun (logic) a statement that contradicts itself

Pessimistic

Pessimistic - adj. expecting the worst in this worst of all possible worlds

Plausible

Plausible - adj. apparently reasonable and valid, and truthful; given to or characterized by presenting specious arguments

Ponder

Ponder - verb reflect deeply on a subject

Prejudiced

Prejudiced - adj. being biased or having a belief or attitude formed beforehand; emanating from a person's emotions and prejudices

Presume

Presume - verb take liberties or act with too much confidence; constitute reasonable evidence for; take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof; take upon oneself; act presumptuously, without permission

Query

Query - noun an instance of questioning; verb pose a question

Reckon

Reckon - verb take account of; expect, believe, or suppose; make a mathematical calculation or computation; deem to be; judge to be probable; have faith or confidence in

Reflect

Reflect - verb give evidence of the quality of; give evidence of a certain behavior; to throw or bend back or reflect (from a surface); manifest or bring back; be bright by reflecting or casting light; reflect deeply on a subject

Skeptical

Skeptical - adj. denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion; marked by or given to doubt

Speculate

Speculate - verb to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion; invest at a risk; reflect deeply on a subject

Suppose

Suppose - verb express a supposition; expect, believe, or suppose; to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; require as a necessary antecedent or precondition; take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand

Adapt

Adapt - verb make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose; adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions

Adjust

Adjust - verb adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions; alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard; make correspondent or conformable; decide how much is to be paid on an insurance claim; place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight

Alternate

Alternate - adj. occurring by turns; first one and then the other; every second one of a series; of leaves and branches etc; first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along an axis; not paired; allowing a choice; noun someone who takes the place of another person; verb do something in turns; go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions; exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions; reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action); be an understudy or alternate for a role

Amend

Amend - verb make amendments to; set straight or right; to make better

Conservate

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Convert

Convert - noun a person who has been converted to another religious or political belief; verb change in nature, purpose, or function; undergo a chemical change; change the nature, purpose, or function of something; change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy; change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief; cause to adopt a new or different faith; make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something; score (a spare); complete successfully; score an extra point or points after touchdown by kicking the ball through the uprights or advancing the ball into the end zone; exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category; exchange a penalty for a less severe one

Decay

Decay - noun the organic phenomenon of rotting; a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current; the process of gradually becoming inferior; the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation; an inferior state resulting from the process of decaying; verb fall into decay or ruin; undergo decay or decomposition; lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current

Deteriorate

Deteriorate - verb become worse or disintegrate; grow worse

Distort

Distort - verb alter the shape of (something) by stress; make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story; affect as in thought or feeling; form into a spiral shape; twist and press out of shape

Dynamic

Dynamic - adj. characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality; of or relating to dynamics; expressing action rather than a state of being; used of verbs (e.g. \`to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. \`running' in \`running water'); noun an efficient incentive

Endure

Endure - verb put up with something or somebody unpleasant; undergo or be subjected to; continue to live; endure or last; continue to exist; persist for a specified period of time; last and be usable; face or endure with courage

Evolve

Evolve - verb undergo development or evolution; work out; gain through experience

Influence

Influence - noun causing something without any direct or apparent effort; a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc; a cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do; one having power to influence another; the effect of one thing (or person) on another; verb have and exert influence or effect; shape or influence; give direction to; induce into action by using one's charm

Innovation

Innovation - noun the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new; a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation; the creation of something in the mind

Innovative

Innovative - adj. being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before; ahead of the times

Last

Last - adj. occurring at the time of death; lowest in rank or importance; coming after all others in time or space or degree or being the only one remaining; highest in extent or degree; most unlikely or unsuitable; immediately past; not to be altered or undone; occurring at or forming an end or termination; conclusive in a process or progression; adv. more recently than any other time; the item at the end; noun a person's dying act; the final thing a person can do; holding device shaped like a human foot that is used to fashion or repair shoes; a unit of capacity for grain equal to 80 bushels; a unit of weight equal to 4,000 pounds; the last or lowest in an ordering or series; the concluding parts of an event or occurrence; the time at which life ends; continuing until dead; the temporal end; the concluding time; verb persist for a specified period of time; continue to live; endure or last

Maintain

"Maintain - verb state or assert; observe correctly or closely; support against an opponent; state categorically; maintain by writing regular records; supply with necessities and support; maintain for use and service; have and exercise; keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction; keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., ""keep clean"""

Mature

Mature - adj. fully considered and perfected; having reached full natural growth or development; characteristic of maturity; (of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination; fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used; verb develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation; become due for repayment; develop and work out fully in one's mind; cause to ripen and discharge pus; grow old or older; cause to ripen or develop fully

Modify

Modify - verb make less severe or harsh or extreme; add a modifier to a constituent; cause to change; make different; cause a transformation

Novel

Novel - adj. pleasantly new or different; original and of a kind not seen before; noun a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction; a extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story

Persist

Persist - verb stay behind; be persistent, refuse to stop; continue to exist

Potential

Potential - adj. existing in possibility; expected to become or be; in prospect; noun the inherent capacity for coming into being; the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts

Progress

Progress - noun the act of moving forward toward a goal; a movement forward; gradual improvement or growth or development; verb develop in a positive way; form or accumulate steadily; move forward, also in the metaphorical sense

Radical

Radical - adj. especially of leaves; located at the base of a plant or stem; especially arising directly from the root or rootstock or a root-like stem; arising from or going to the root; of or relating to or constituting a linguistic root; (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm; markedly new or introducing radical change; noun a sign placed in front of an expression to denote that a root is to be extracted; a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram; a person who has radical ideas or opinions; (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule; an atom or group of atoms with at least one unpaired electron; in the body it is usually an oxygen molecule than has lost an electron and will stabilize itself by stealing an electron from a nearby molecule

Refine

Refine - verb make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of; attenuate or reduce in vigor, strength, or validity by polishing or purifying; reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities; treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition; make more complex, intricate, or richer; improve or perfect by pruning or polishing

Reform

Reform - noun a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses; self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice; a campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices; verb change for the better; make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices; improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition; break up the molecules of; produce by cracking; bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one

Remain

"Remain - verb be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc.; ""There remains the question of who pulled the trigger""; stay the same; remain in a certain state; continue in a place, position, or situation; stay behind"

Revise

Revise - noun the act of rewriting something; verb make revisions in; revise or reorganize, especially for the purpose of updating and improving

Revolution

Revolution - noun the overthrow of a government by those who are governed; a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving; a single complete turn (axial or orbital)

Shift

Shift - noun the act of moving from one place to another; an event in which something is displaced without rotation; a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time; the time period during which you are at work; the act of changing one thing or position for another; a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist; a woman's sleeveless undergarment; the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters; a qualitative change; (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other; verb move and exchange for another; change gears; move from one setting or context to another; change in quality; change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change; use a shift key on a keyboard; change place or direction; make a shift in or exchange of; lay aside, abandon, or leave for another; move abruptly; move sideways or in an unsteady way; move very slightly; move around

Spoil

Spoil - noun the act of stripping and taking by force; the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it; (usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war); verb become unfit for consumption or use; alter from the original; make imperfect; destroy and strip of its possession; have a strong desire or urge to do something; make a mess of, destroy or ruin; hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; treat with excessive indulgence

Status quo

Steady

Substitute

Sustain

Switch

Transform

Trend

Uniform

Abrupt

Anachronism

Annual

Antique

Century

Chronological

Contemporary

Decade

Duration

Elapse

Er

Eternal

Expire

Frequency

Instantaneous

Interim

Interval

Lapse

Lifetime

Long-standing

Millenium