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