| 1 | affect | emotion or mood considered as a mental influence | Hard |
| 2 | analogy | a comparison used to explain a relationship | Hard |
| 3 | aptitude | a natural or developed capacity to learn a skill | Hard |
| 4 | automaticity | performing a learned action with little attention | Hard |
| 5 | connotation | an association a word carries beyond its basic meaning | Hard |
| 6 | deliberation | careful thought before a decision | Hard |
| 7 | denotation | the direct or literal meaning of a word | Hard |
| 8 | discourse | connected spoken or written communication | Hard |
| 9 | elicitation | the act of drawing out information or a response | Hard |
| 10 | volition | the capacity to choose and act deliberately | Hard |
| 11 | formative | intended to guide improvement during learning | Hard |
| 12 | heuristic | a practical shortcut for making a judgment | Hard |
| 13 | inhibition | the ability to hold back a response | Hard |
| 14 | intuition | understanding reached without deliberate reasoning | Hard |
| 15 | metacognition | awareness of one's own thinking and learning | Hard |
| 16 | mnemonic | a device that helps memory | Hard |
| 17 | morphology | the structure and formation of words | Hard |
| 18 | perception | the process of interpreting sensory information | Hard |
| 19 | pragmatic | concerned with practical use or context | Hard |
| 20 | priming | the influence of earlier exposure on a later response | Hard |
| 21 | referent | the thing a word or phrase points to | Hard |
| 22 | sociolect | a variety of language associated with a social group | Hard |
| 23 | scaffolding | temporary support that helps a learner master a task | Hard |
| 24 | schema | an organized mental pattern for understanding | Hard |
| 25 | semantic | related to meaning in language | Hard |
| 26 | syntax | the arrangement of words into sentences | Hard |
| 27 | stereotype | an oversimplified belief about a group | Hard |
| 28 | subconscious | occurring without deliberate awareness | Hard |
| 29 | transferability | the degree to which a skill works in new settings | Hard |
| 30 | verbal | related to words or spoken expression | Hard |
| 31 | associative | involving links between ideas or experiences | Hard |
| 32 | cognitive load | the mental effort a task requires | Hard |
| 33 | cohesion | the connection among parts of a text | Hard |
| 34 | elaboration | the addition of detail to deepen understanding | Hard |
| 35 | fluency | the ability to perform smoothly and readily | Hard |
| 36 | interference | one mental process disrupting another | Hard |
| 37 | recursive | repeatedly applying a rule to its own output | Hard |
| 38 | retention | continued memory of learned information | Hard |
| 39 | paralinguistic | communicating through vocal cues beyond words | Hard |
| 40 | working memory | the limited mental space for active information | Hard |