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  • Both Chris and Carine shared Walt's musical aptitude.  (source)
  • Math aptitude is another thing, but people aren't meant to be overly bright in everything.  (source)
  • Fritz Hammer and Andy Schmeikl wanted to keep it, but Arthur Berg, showing his incongruous moral aptitude, had a better idea.  (source)
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  • I was then given a battery of increasingly difficult aptitude tests intended to measure my knowledge and abilities in every area that might conceivably be of use to my new employer.  (source)
    aptitude = natural ability
  • "My point is, maybe that's not where your aptitudes lie," she said.†  (source)
  • Was it simply the hysteria of a man who, aware deep down of his inaptitude for love, felt the self-deluding need to simulate it?†  (source)
    inaptitude = lacking natural ability
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inaptitude means not and reverses the meaning of aptitude. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
  • Well, it was clear to me — and my parents later confessed that it had been obvious to them, too — what my aptitude was.  (source)
    aptitude = natural ability
  • Lori, because of her good grades and art portfolio, had been accepted into a government-sponsored summer camp for students with special aptitudes.†  (source)
  • The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens.†  (source)
    inaptitude = lacking natural ability
  • It looks like you did very well on the aptitude tests, Risa—above average, actually.  (source)
    aptitude = natural ability
  • And how could the aptitudes have put her in such a position, if she was capable of that?†  (source)
  • The mistress of the house, meanwhile, as is usual with persons of her stiff and unmalleable cast, stood mostly aside; willing to lend her aid, yet conscious that her natural inaptitude would be likely to impede the business in hand.†  (source)
    inaptitude = lacking natural ability
  • You see, as a boy I had a certain aptitude for marksmanship.  (source)
    aptitude = natural ability
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