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111conceive — v 1. think, opine, conjecture, surmise, fancy; speculate, suppose, assume, presume, Archaic. trow; reckon, perceive, apprehend, understand, comprehend, see; contrive, devise, cogitate, concoct, excogitate; plot, plan, compass, design, purpose;… …
112concoct — v 1. prepare, cook, cook up, make; compose, combine, mix, put together; get up, Inf. rustle up, muster up. 2. devise, contrive, cogitate, excogitate; think up, dream up, make up, conjure up. Inf. cook up; plot, compass, design, germinate; fashion …
113contemplate — v 1. watch, keep an eye on, keep a vigil, rivet one s eye upon, stare at, gaze at, view, look at; attend, pay attention to, mind, heed; observe, regard, eye, peer, pry; survey, reconnoiter, scrutinize, scan, examine, inspect; witness, see, notice …
114contrive — v 1. devise, invent, imagine, originate, create, excogitate; design, plan, work out, think up, hit upon, dream up, spin; concoct, make up, fabricate, improvise; construct, work up. 2. plot, conspire, scheme, intrigue, complot; brew, hatch, trump… …
115deliberate — adj 1. intentional, purposeful, meant, destined, willful, volitional, voluntary; premeditated, preconceived, preconceptional, aforethought, prede terminate, predetermined, prepense; meditated, studious, studied, considered, weighed; preconcerted …
116devise — v 1. concoct, scheme, contrive, arrange, project, design, work out, plan, plan for; originate, invent, create, compose, excogitate; design, draft, frame, coin, mint, shape, construct, work up; think up, Sl. dope out, hit upon, dream up, spin,… …
117formulate — v 1. state, state clearly, define, articulate; particularize, specify, itemize, indicate, designate; determine, denote, systematize, formularize. 2. devise, conceive, think of, think up, excogitate; create, invent, originate, hit upon, coin;… …
118invent — v 1. originate, discover, create, compose, excogitate; think up, Sl. dope out, hit upon; devise, contrive, work up, work out, plan, plan out; design, draft, frame, coin, mint, shape, form, construct, fashion; patent, license, register. 2. imagine …
119lucubrate — v 1. study, apply oneself, excogitate, cerebrate, con, cogitate, burn the midnight oil; dig, grind, Brit. Inf. swot, Brit. Inf. vet, Inf. cram, Sl. hit the books, Sl. crack the books; toil, fag, moil, slave; pore over, concentrate, deliberate,… …
120muse — v 1. meditate, contemplate, reflect, ponder, brood, mull over, dwell on; cogitate, ruminate, be in a brown study, chew, chew one s cud; deliberate, excogitate, consider, take to heart, Archaic. perpend; weigh, revolve, turn over, review, study,… …
