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Review

To view or see again; to look back on.

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Contextual alternative 1

Evaluate 84% connected

To fix the value of; to rate; to appraise.

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A review can be descriptive as well as evaluative, so the terms are not always interchangeable.

Broader term 27

Accounting 76% connected

of Account

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Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Analyse 76% connected

Alt. of Analyser

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Analyze 76% connected

To subject to analysis; to resolve (anything complex) into its elements; to separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Appraisal 76% connected

A valuation by an authorized person; an appraisement.

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Assessment 76% connected

The act of assessing; the act of determining an amount to be paid; as, an assessment of damages, or of taxes; an assessment of the members of a club.

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Canvass 76% connected

To sift; to strain; to examine thoroughly; to scrutinize; as, to canvass the votes cast at an election; to canvass a district with reference to its p…

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Capitulation 76% connected

A reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement.

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Criticism 76% connected

The rules and principles which regulate the practice of the critic; the art of judging with knowledge and propriety of the beauties and faults of a l…

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Drill 76% connected

To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal.

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Evaluate 76% connected

To fix the value of; to rate; to appraise.

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Examination 76% connected

The act of examining, or state of being examined; a careful search, investigation, or inquiry; scrutiny by study or experiment.

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Examine 76% connected

To test by any appropriate method; to inspect carefully with a view to discover the real character or state of; to subject to inquiry or inspection o…

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Exercise 76% connected

The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; o…

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Inspect 76% connected

To look upon; to view closely and critically, esp. in order to ascertain quality or condition, to detect errors, etc., to examine; to scrutinize; to…

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Judge 76% connected

A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…

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Periodical 76% connected

Of or pertaining to a period or periods, or to division by periods.

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Practice 76% connected

Frequently repeated or customary action; habitual performance; a succession of acts of a similar kind; usage; habit; custom; as, the practice of risi…

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Proceeding 76% connected

of Proceed

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Recall 76% connected

To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.

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Recitation 76% connected

The act of reciting; rehearsal; repetition of words or sentences.

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Recollect 76% connected

To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember.

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Remember 76% connected

To have ( a notion or idea) come into the mind again, as previously perceived, known, or felt; to have a renewed apprehension of; to bring to mind ag…

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Retrieve 76% connected

To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury; as, to retrieve one's character; to retrieve independence.

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Scrutiny 76% connected

Close examination; minute inspection; critical observation.

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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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Think 76% connected

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

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Variety 76% connected

The quality or state of being various; intermixture or succession of different things; diversity; multifariousness.

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Narrower term 6

Check 76% connected

A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece,…

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Epanodos 76% connected

A figure of speech in which the parts of a sentence or clause are repeated in inverse order

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Follies 76% connected

of Folly

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judicial review 76% connected

A legal challenge asking a court to review how a public authority made a decision.

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Notice 76% connected

The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note.

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Rave 76% connected

imp. of Rive.

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Manner of action 2

Peer review 76% connected

Review of research by other specialists before or after publication.

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Referee 76% connected

One to whom a thing is referred; a person to whom a matter in dispute has been referred, in order that he may settle it.

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Derivationally related 4

Critique 74% connected

The art of criticism.

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Critique 74% connected

The art of criticism.

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Retrospect 74% connected

To look backward; hence, to affect or concern what is past.

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Retrospect 74% connected

To look backward; hence, to affect or concern what is past.

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See also 2

Look 66% connected

To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; --…

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Open English WordNet provides this as a see-also lexical relationship.

Look 66% connected

To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; --…

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Synonym 9

Critique 92% connected

The art of criticism.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Reassessment 92% connected

A renewed or second assessment.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Recapitulation 92% connected

The act of recapitulating; a summary, or concise statement or enumeration, of the principal points, facts, or statements, in a preceding discourse, a…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Reexamination 92% connected

A repeated examination. See under Examination.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Reexamine 92% connected

To examine anew.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Refresh 92% connected

To make fresh again; to restore strength, spirit, animation, or the like, to; to relieve from fatigue or depression; to reinvigorate; to enliven anew…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Retrospect 92% connected

To look backward; hence, to affect or concern what is past.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Revaluation 92% connected

A second or new valuation.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Survey 92% connected

To inspect, or take a view of; to view with attention, as from a high place; to overlook; as, to stand on a hill, and survey the surrounding country.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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