circumspect
[sur-kuh m-spekt]

adjective

1. watchful and discreet; cautious; prudent
2. well-considered

Synonyms
careful, vigilant, guarded

astute
[uh-stoot, uh-styoot]

adjective

1. of keen penetration or discernment; sagacious
2. clever; cunning; ingenious; shrewd

Synonyms
1. smart, quick, perceptive
2. artful, crafty, wily, sly

ascertain
[as-er-teyn]

verb

to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine

Synonym
learn

adroit
adjective
expert or nimble in the use of the hands or body.

Synonyms
skillful, clever, deft, apt, adept

acumen
noun
keen insight; shrewdness:
remarkable acumen in business matters.

rhetoric
noun
(in writing or speech) the undue use of exaggeration or display

lucid
adjective
easily understood; completely intelligible or comprehensible
a lucid explanation

Synonyms
plain, understandable, evident

insinuate
verb (used with object)
1. to suggest or hint slyly:
He insinuated that they were lying.
2. to instill or infuse subtly or artfully, as into the mind:
to insinuate doubts through propaganda.
3. to bring or introduce into a position or relation by indirect or artful methods:
to insinuate oneself into favor.

incoherent
adjective
1. without logical or meaningful connection; disjointed; rambling:
an incoherent sentence
2. characterized by such thought or language, as a person:
incoherent with rage
3. not coherent or cohering:
an incoherent mixture
4. lacking physical cohesion; loose:
incoherent dust
5. lacking unity or harmony of elements:
an incoherent public
6. lacking congruity of parts; uncoordinated
7. different or incompatible by nature, as things

extrapolate
verb (used with object)
1. to infer (an unknown) from something that is known; conjecture
2. Statistics. to estimate (the value of a variable) outside the tabulated or observed range
3. Mathematics. to estimate (a function that is known over a range of values of its independent variable) to values outside the known range.

Word of the Day
euphemism
noun
1. the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt
2. the expression so substituted
“To pass away” is a euphemism for “to die.”

didactic
adjective
1. intended for instruction; instructive
didactic poetry
2. inclined to teach or lecture others too much
a boring, didactic speaker
3. teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson
4. didactics, (used with a singular verb) the art or science of teaching

Synonyms
pedantic, preachy, donnish, pedagogic