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121ponder — v 1. cogitate, think over, rack one s brains, cudgel one s brain, trouble one s head; ruminate, chew, chew one s cud, brood, mull over, dwell on, be in a brown study; reflect, speculate, wonder about, dream about, muse; meditate, contemplate,… …
122rationalize — v 1. intellectualize, paralogize, explain away, talk away; invent, make excuses for, construe; justify, vindicate, account for, make acceptable, make allowance for; attribute, ascribe, misapply. 2. reason, deliberate, contemplate, reflect,… …
123reason — n 1. basis, cause, ground, grounds, motive, warrant, occasion, Obs. skill; inducement, inspiration, impetus, incentive; mover, prime mover, agent; instigation, incitement, provocation; stimulation, actuation, fomentation. 2. justification,… …
124speculate — v 1. meditate, think, reflect, cogitate, excogitate, rationalize, intellectualize; deliberate, put on one s thinking cap, contemplate, ponder; study, muse, mull over, ruminate; digest, think over, ponder over, brood over; reflect over, reflect on …
125study — n 1. reading, review, reviewing, learning, taking in, absorption, memorization; concentration, intentness, attentiveness, application, endeavor, effort, enterprise, work, hard work; industry, industriousness, sedulousness, assiduity, plodding,… …
126think — v 1. conceive, imagine, image, picture; ideate, form an image of, think of, dream up; dream, envisage, visualize, make up, conjure, feature; concoct, hatch, brew, fabricate, fashion, form, formulate. 2. meditate, ponder, reason, deliberate;… …
127consider — [v1] turn over in one’s mind acknowledge, allow for, assent to, chew over*, cogitate, concede, consult, contemplate, deal with, deliberate, dream of, envisage, examine, excogitate, favor, flirt with*, grant, inspect, keep in mind, look at,… …
128contemplate — [v1] think about seriously; plan aim, aspire to, brood over, chew over, consider, cool out*, deliberate, design, envisage, excogitate, expect, foresee, intend, kick around*, mean, meditate on, mind, mull over, muse over, observe, percolate,… …
