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Muse

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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Manner of action 10

Bethink 76% connected

To call to mind; to recall or bring to recollection, reflection, or consideration; to think; to consider; -- generally followed by a reflexive pronou…

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Cogitate 76% connected

To engage in continuous thought; to think.

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Consider 76% connected

To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on.

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Introspect 76% connected

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

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Premeditate 76% connected

To think on, and revolve in the mind, beforehand; to contrive and design previously; as, to premeditate robbery.

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Puzzle 76% connected

Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Question 76% connected

The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.

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Study 76% connected

A setting of the mind or thoughts upon a subject; hence, application of mind to books, arts, or science, or to any subject, for the purpose of acquir…

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Theologize 76% connected

To render theological; to apply to divinity; to reduce to a system of theology.

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Wonder 76% connected

That emotion which is excited by novelty, or the presentation to the sight or mind of something new, unusual, strange, great, extraordinary, or not w…

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Broader term 6

Cerebrate 76% connected

To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.

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Cogitate 76% connected

To engage in continuous thought; to think.

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Germ 76% connected

That which is to develop a new individual; as, the germ of a fetus, of a plant or flower, and the like; the earliest form under which an organism app…

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Seed 76% connected

of Seed

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Source 76% connected

The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.

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Think 76% connected

To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

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Derivationally related 4

Muller 74% connected

One who, or that which, mulls.

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Muller 74% connected

One who, or that which, mulls.

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Reflection 74% connected

The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the state of being reflected.

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Reflection 74% connected

The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the state of being reflected.

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Synonym 8

Contemplate 92% 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…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Excogitate 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Meditate 92% 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.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Mull 92% connected

A thin, soft kind of muslin.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Ponder 92% connected

To weigh.

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Reflect 92% 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…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Ruminate 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Speculate 92% 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…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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