| Word | What it does |
|---|---|
| Specify | Forces particulars instead of generalities |
| Quantify | Turns opinions into comparable numbers |
| Itemize | Breaks a lump into a countable list |
| Compare | Judges options on identical criteria |
| Rank | Orders options and exposes priorities |
| Prioritize | Sorts by what must happen first |
| Exemplify | Demands a concrete instance for every claim |
| Define | Pins slippery words down before building on them |
| Pinpoint | Locates the exact spot, moment, or cause |
| Probe | Makes it question you, one good question at a time |
| Anchor | Fixes one reference example and judges everything against it |
| Target | Aims the answer at one specific reader |
| Constrain | Sets hard edges the answer must solve inside |
| Exclude | Removes the obvious and already-tried |
| Assume | States a premise so reasoning can start somewhere real |
| Bracket | Gives a low case and high case instead of a false-precise number |
| Budget | Allocates a fixed total and defends the split |
| Limit | Caps the count, forcing the machine to choose |
| Simplify | Strips jargon while keeping the load-bearing ideas |
| Localize | Drags generic advice into your actual place |
| Timebox | Bounds a plan by minutes instead of wishes |
| Role | Gives the machine a part to play, with its reflexes included |
| Filter | Keeps only what meets your criteria and drops the rest |
| Scope | Draws the border of the job — what's in, what's out |
| Sequence | Orders steps with their dependencies respected |
| Outline | Gives the skeleton before the flesh |
| Tabulate | Aligns facts into scannable rows and columns |
| Summarize | Compresses while keeping the claims that matter |
| Compress | Squeezes to a hard size without losing the essentials |
| Expand | Grows exactly one point, deeply |
| Decompose | Breaks a big fog into small, startable jobs |
| Recompose | Rebuilds the parts in a better arrangement |
| Stage | Divides a long effort into phases with gates between them |
| Chunk | Cuts big material into sittings you can finish |
| Layer | Stacks one explanation at several depths |
| Map | Shows how the pieces connect to each other |
| Steelman | States the other side at its strongest |
| Invert | Asks how to fail, in order to avoid it |
| Critique | Switches the machine from author to reviewer |
| Defend | Argues for a position under attack |
| Disagree | Gives the machine an instruction to push back |
| Counterfactual | Removes one cause at a time to find the real one |
| Anticipate | Raises tomorrow's hard questions today |
| Simulate | Rehearses the real situation instead of describing it |
| Stress-Test | Pushes a plan against hard conditions to find the crack |
| Falsify | Asks what evidence would prove the claim wrong |
| Worst-Case | Starts from the bad outcome and plans backward |
| Rebut | Makes it argue against its own previous answer |
| Verify | Re-checks its own claims and grades them |
| Audit | Examines the whole thing against a checklist |
| Cite | Attaches a source to each claim |
| Cross-Check | Reaches the same answer by a second route |
| Trace | Follows a claim back to where it started |
| Estimate | Shows assumptions and arithmetic behind a number |
| Flag | Marks its own uncertainties in the open |
| Reconcile | Finds where two disagreeing numbers parted |
| Sanity-Check | Tests whether a number is even in the plausible band |
| Grade | Makes it rate its own confidence in the open |
| Refresh | Confronts which facts expire and how to confirm today's |
| Benchmark | Measures your number against a known standard |
| Draft | Produces a working first version to push against |
| Invent | Licenses genuinely new options |
| Narrate | Turns facts into a story memory can hold |
| Translate | Converts jargon into your dialect |
| Rewrite | Keeps the content, changes the delivery |
| Vary | Produces deliberately different directions, not copies |
| Iterate | Improves by named rounds instead of restarts |
| Formalize | Dresses rough notes for the room they're entering |
| Brainstorm | Produces quantity first and judgment later |
| Voice | Writes in a named voice instead of the default one |
| Combine | Merges two unlike things into a working new one |
| Script | Writes the exact words for a moment you'll face |
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