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Introspect

To look into or within; to view the inside of.

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Contemplate 76% connected

To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to stud…

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Excogitate 76% connected

To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive.

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Meditate 76% connected

To keep the mind in a state of contemplation; to dwell on anything in thought; to think seriously; to muse; to cogitate; to reflect.

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Mull 76% connected

A thin, soft kind of muslin.

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Muse 76% connected

A gap or hole in a hedge, hence, wall, or the like, through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.

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Ponder 76% connected

To weigh.

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Reflect 76% connected

To bend back; to give a backwa/d turn to; to throw back; especially, to cause to return after striking upon any surface; as, a mirror reflects rays o…

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Ruminate 76% connected

To chew the cud; to chew again what has been slightly chewed and swallowed.

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Speculate 76% connected

To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to…

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Introspection 74% connected

A view of the inside or interior; a looking inward; specifically, the act or process of self-examination, or inspection of one's own thoughts and fee…

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Introspection 74% connected

A view of the inside or interior; a looking inward; specifically, the act or process of self-examination, or inspection of one's own thoughts and fee…

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Introspective 74% connected

Inspecting within; seeing inwardly; capable of, or exercising, inspection; self-conscious.

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Introspective 74% connected

Inspecting within; seeing inwardly; capable of, or exercising, inspection; self-conscious.

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