- Abstruse: (adj) Difficult to understand
- Acumen: (n) Quickness and accuracy of judgment; keen insight; shrewdness
- Ascertain: (v) To discover through examination or experimentation; determine
- Cerebral: (adj) Characterized by thought and reason rather than emotion or action. Appealing to or marked by the workings of the intellect; Intellectually refined. Of or pertaining to the brain or cerebrum
- Faculty: (n) Any of the powers or capacities possess by the human mind. A special aptitude or skill. A group of teachers as distinguished from their students
- Relative: (adj Having a pertinence or relevance: connected; related. considered in comparison to or in relationship with something else. Dependent upon or interconnected with something else for intelligibility or significance; not absolute or independent.
- Ruminate: (v) To meditate at length; ponder; muse. To chew cud.
- Surmise: (v) To come to a conclusion about something without sufficient evidence. To make a guess or conjecture. (n) An idea or opinion based upon insufficiently conclusive evidence
- Tenet: (n) an opinion, doctrine or principle held as being true by a person or group.
- Theoretical: (adj) Of, or pertaining to, or based on conclusions reached through logical reasoning. Restricted to theory; lacking verification or practical application; hypothetical. Given to theorizing; speculative.