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Understand

To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the court understands the advocate or his argument; to understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a wink.

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Verb group 14

Fancy 84% connected

The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into…

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Fancy 84% connected

The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into…

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Figure 84% connected

The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

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Figure 84% connected

The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

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Image 84% connected

An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a v…

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Image 84% connected

An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a v…

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Picture 84% connected

The art of painting; representation by painting.

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Picture 84% connected

The art of painting; representation by painting.

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Project 84% connected

The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.

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Project 84% connected

The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.

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See 84% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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See 84% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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Visualize 84% connected

To make visual, or visible; to see in fancy.

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Visualize 84% connected

To make visual, or visible; to see in fancy.

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Manner of action 29

Anticipate 76% connected

To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.

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Appreciate 76% connected

To set a price or value on; to estimate justly; to value.

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Apprehend 76% connected

To take or seize; to take hold of.

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Bottom 76% connected

The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page.

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Catch 76% connected

To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.

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Click 76% connected

To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick.

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Compass 76% connected

A passing round; circuit; circuitous course.

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Comprehend 76% connected

To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire.

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Construe 76% connected

To apply the rules of syntax to (a sentence or clause) so as to exhibit the structure, arrangement, or connection of, or to discover the sense; to ex…

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Dawn 76% connected

To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns.

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Dig 76% connected

To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, o…

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Fathom 76% connected

A measure of length, containing six feet; the space to which a man can extend his arms; -- used chiefly in measuring cables, cordage, and the depth o…

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Follow 76% connected

To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend.

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Foreknow 76% connected

To have previous knowledge of; to know beforehand.

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Foresee 76% connected

To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow.

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Grasp 76% connected

To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of.

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Interpret 76% connected

To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applie…

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Lick 76% connected

To draw or pass the tongue over; as, a dog licks his master's hand.

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Penetrate 76% connected

To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness.

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Perceive 76% connected

To obtain knowledge of through the senses; to receive impressions from by means of the bodily organs; to take cognizance of the existence, character,…

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Previse 76% connected

To foresee.

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Read 76% connected

Rennet. See 3d Reed.

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See 76% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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Sense 76% connected

A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the bod…

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Solve 76% connected

To explain; to resolve; to unfold; to clear up (what is obscure or difficult to be understood); to work out to a result or conclusion; as, to solve a…

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Touch 76% connected

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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Translate 76% connected

To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree.

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Work 76% connected

Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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Broader term 8

Believe 76% connected

To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arg…

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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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Cognize 76% connected

To know or perceive; to recognize.

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Experience 76% connected

Trial, as a test or experiment.

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Feel 76% connected

To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; t…

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Know 76% connected

Knee.

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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 6

Realization 74% connected

The act of realizing, or the state of being realized.

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Realization 74% connected

The act of realizing, or the state of being realized.

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Understandable 74% connected

Capable of being understood; intelligible.

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Understandable 74% connected

Capable of being understood; intelligible.

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Synonym 7

Infer 92% connected

To bring on; to induce; to occasion.

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Interpret 92% connected

To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applie…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Read 92% connected

Rennet. See 3d Reed.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Realize 92% connected

To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to effectuate; to accomplish; as, to rea…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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See 92% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sympathize 92% connected

To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Translate 92% connected

To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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