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natural ability- Hyde's study indicates that girls and boys have the same aptitude for math.
aptitude = natural ability
- She took an online career aptitude test and then a career interest test.
- Evidently she had great natural aptitude for her work.Cather, Willa -- My Antonia
- He had led an easy life, ordering much and working little, and had no aptitude for any new business.Eliot, George -- The Mill on the Floss
- I have neither aptitude nor inclination for fiction.London, Jack -- The Sea Wolf
- She mentioned that there was one who had singular skills at caretaking, another who loved newchildren, one with unusual scientific aptitude, and a fourth for whom physical labor was an obvious pleasure.Lois Lowry -- The Giver
- Immediately I'd think of the Air Force, but as a freshman in high school I had taken the aptitude test and failed miserably.Dave Pelzer -- The Lost Boy
- I am pleased, of course, because of your aptitude test results.Veronica Roth -- Insurgent
- Well, it was clear to me — and my parents later confessed that it had been obvious to them, too — what my aptitude was.Lois Lowry -- The Giver
- So you have no idea what my aptitude is?Veronica Roth -- Divergent
- Probably the one with scientific aptitude was Benjamin, the male who had devised new, important equipment for the Rehabilitation Center.Lois Lowry -- The Giver
- You have shown, besides, a singular aptitude for getting into false positions; and, yes, upon the whole, for behaving well in them.Robert Louis Stevenson -- Kidnapped
- And the milestones of his training: Dutchy passes his physical and scores high on the mechanical aptitude test.Christina Baker Kline -- Orphan Train
- Vasia did not show any great talent for drawing but he had enough aptitude to enter a school of industrial design.Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
- It has been observed in a former paper, that "the true test of a good government is its aptitude and tendency to produce a good administration."Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers
- 2 Paper #68 said, "The true test of a good government is its aptitude and tendency to produce a good administration."Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
- And Georgy liked to play the part of master and perhaps had a natural aptitude for it.William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
- I had it until I took up public speaking, developed my voice, and learned that I had an aptitude for science.Tennessee Williams -- The Glass Menagerie
- It looks like you did very well on the aptitude tests, Risaabove average, actually.Neal Shusterman -- Unwind
- My human life had not prepared me for things that came naturally, and I couldn't make myself trust this aptitude to last.Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
aptitude = natural ability
aptitude = natural ability
aptitude = natural ability
aptitude = natural ability
aptitude = natural ability
aptitude = natural ability
aptitude = natural ability