aptitude

aptitude
n
1. ability, capability, proficiency; gift, talent, endowment, faculty, facility, flair, knack, forte; capacity, potential, the stuff, Inf. what it takes, U.S. Inf. the goods; predilection, proclivity, propensity; inclination, tendentiousness, proneness; penchant, bent, turn.
2. intelligence, intellect, genius, aptness, wit, mother wit, sagacity, head, brain, mind; ingenuity, astuteness, cleverness, brilliance, brightness, smartness, acuity, acuteness, sharpness, keenness; perspicacity, penetration.
3. aptness, fitness, qualification, preparedness, readiness; competency, adequacy, sufficiency, capableness.

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