Verbs of Reasoning


 * abstract
 * accent
 * adduce
 * advise
 * allege
 * allude
 * analogy
 * analysis
 * analyze
 * antithesis
 * apologia
 * apprehension
 * apprise
 * argument
 * arrive at
 * assumption
 * attest
 * attribute
 * axiom
 * bandy
 * beat around the bush
 * belabor
 * biconditional
 * brainstorm
 * break the news
 * cajole
 * calculate
 * cant
 * canvass
 * cast about
 * cerebrate
 * chaffer
 * check
 * check out
 * chew over
 * circumscribe
 * clarification
 * clarify
 * clear the air
 * clear up
 * clincher
 * coax
 * cogent
 * cogitation
 * cognition
 * cognitive
 * coherent
 * collogue
 * communicate
 * compare
 * comprehension
 * con
 * conception
 * conclude
 * confer
 * confide
 * confutation
 * conjecture
 * constate
 * construe
 * contend
 * content
 * contest
 * contradiction
 * contradistinction
 * contraposition
 * contrast
 * controvert
 * convention
 * convey
 * convince
 * correct
 * correlate
 * counsel
 * counterexample
 * counterproposal
 * crack
 * criterion
 * crux
 * cumulative
 * cut-and-dried
 * data
 * datum
 * debate
 * decree
 * deduce
 * deduction
 * define
 * definition
 * definitive
 * deliberate
 * delimit
 * delineate
 * demystify
 * depict
 * derive
 * describe
 * determine
 * diagnose
 * dialectic
 * didactic
 * differentiate
 * dig into
 * disclose
 * discourse
 * discursive reasoning
 * discuss
 * disjunction
 * disprove
 * dispute
 * disquisition
 * dissect
 * dissertation
 * divulge
 * educe
 * egghead
 * elucidate
 * emphasize
 * enounce
 * epistemic
 * equivocate
 * esemplastic
 * establish
 * evaluate
 * examination
 * examine
 * excogitate
 * explain
 * explicate
 * explore
 * expostulate
 * expound
 * extrapolate
 * fact
 * facultative
 * fallacy
 * figure
 * figure out
 * fill in
 * find out
 * follow
 * forensic
 * forethought
 * generalization
 * get across
 * get over
 * gist
 * gloss over
 * gossip
 * grasp
 * hash over
 * hint
 * hold forth
 * hypothesis
 * hypothesize
 * idea
 * ideation
 * ignoratio elenchi
 * illustrate
 * implausible
 * implication
 * imply
 * import
 * impute
 * induce
 * induction
 * infer
 * inference
 * inform
 * information
 * insinuate
 * inspect
 * instruct
 * integrate
 * intellect
 * intellection
 * intellectualize
 * interpolate
 * interpret
 * interpretation
 * investigate
 * irrelevant
 * itemize
 * ken
 * last word
 * lay down
 * lecture
 * liable
 * limn
 * list
 * logic
 * lucid
 * metagrobolize
 * middle ground
 * moot
 * name
 * narrate
 * notify
 * notion
 * nub
 * observe
 * offer
 * open
 * outtalk
 * parley
 * penetrate
 * perception
 * perspicacious
 * perspicuous
 * persuade
 * pertinence
 * philosophize
 * pitch
 * place
 * plead
 * plumb
 * polemic
 * pore over
 * position
 * postulate
 * powwow
 * preface
 * prehension
 * prelect
 * premise
 * prescribe
 * probe
 * proffer
 * propagate
 * propose
 * proposition
 * proselytize
 * prove
 * proviso
 * psychologize
 * puzzle
 * question
 * ratio cognoscendi
 * ratiocination
 * rational
 * rationale
 * rationalize
 * read
 * reason
 * reasoning
 * rebut
 * recant
 * recap
 * recapitulate
 * recite
 * recount
 * redefine
 * reduce
 * reductionism
 * reflection
 * refust
 * refutation
 * relate
 * relation
 * relay
 * repeat
 * report
 * represent
 * research
 * resolve
 * restate
 * retell
 * retract
 * reveal
 * review
 * riddle
 * rumination
 * scrutinize
 * search
 * sift through
 * snith
 * solve
 * sophistry
 * sort out
 * sound reasoning
 * specify
 * specious
 * speculation
 * spell out
 * spil
 * spill one's guts
 * spill the beans
 * squeal
 * standard
 * statement
 * sticky wicket
 * stipulate
 * stipulation
 * strategize
 * stress
 * study
 * submit
 * suggest
 * sum up
 * summarize
 * surmise
 * survey
 * sustain
 * sway
 * syllogize
 * syncretism
 * synopsize
 * synthesis
 * synthesize
 * take back
 * talk into
 * talk out of
 * talk over
 * talk sense
 * talk turkey
 * tangent
 * tattle
 * tell
 * tell all
 * tenable
 * testify
 * theorem
 * theory
 * thesis
 * think over
 * think through
 * thought
 * thought-out
 * thrust
 * trace
 * transmit
 * treat
 * treatise
 * typify
 * understate
 * unilateral
 * unsay
 * unswear
 * unveil
 * validate
 * verify
 * voice
 * vouch
 * watertight
 * well-grounded
 * well-rounded
 * well-taken
 * wheedle
 * wit
 * withdraw
 * witness
 * word
 * work in
 * work out
 * work over