| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A careful considering of a matter: advisement, calculation, consideration, deliberation, lucubration. See THOUGHTS. 2. The act of examining carefully: check, checkup, examination, inspection, perusal, scrutiny, view. Informal : going-over. See INVESTIGATE. 3. Repetition of an action so as to develop or maintain one's skill: drill, exercise, practice, rehearsal, training. See WORK. 4. The condition of being so lost in solitary thought as to be unaware of one's surroundings: absent-mindedness, abstraction, bemusement, brown study, daydreaming, muse2, reverie, trance. See AWARENESS. | | VERB: | 1. To look at carefully or critically: check (out), con, examine, go over, inspect, peruse, scrutinize, survey, traverse, view. Informal : case. Idioms: give a going-over. See INVESTIGATE. 2. To think or think about carefully and at length: chew on or (over), cogitate, consider, contemplate, deliberate, entertain, excogitate, meditate, mull, muse1, ponder, reflect, revolve, ruminate, think, think out, think over, think through, turn over, weigh. Idioms: cudgel one's brains, put on one's thinking cap, rack one's brain. See THOUGHTS. 3. To apply one's mind to the acquisition or production of knowledge: con, lucubrate. See TEACH.
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