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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

v. peruse, con; interpret, decipher, predict; pronounce; study; teach, admonish. See interpretation.

II

(Roget's IV) modif.

Syn. examined, gone over, checked over, scanned; see investigated , understood 1 .

v.

1. [To understand by reading]

Syn. comprehend, go through, peruse, study, pore over, scan, skim, browse, glance over, go over, examine, gather, see, know, perceive, apprehend, grasp, learn, flip through the pages, thumb through, wade through, dip into, scratch the surface, run the eye over, bury oneself in, have one's nose in a book*, crack a book*; see also understand 1 .

2. [To interpret]

Syn. view, render, translate, decipher, decode, make out, unravel, express, explain, expound, construe, perceive, paraphrase, restate, put; see also interpret 1 .

3. [To contain when read]

Syn. state, hold, indicate, register, record, show, express, assert, affirm.

4. [To utter printed matter aloud]

Syn. present, deliver, recite, sound out; see address 2 , recite 1 .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) v.

1. to interpret the printed word comprehend, understand, construe, interpret, decipher, translate, peruse, scan, skim, pore over, flip through.

2. utter recite, deliver.

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) verb 1. To perceive and recognize the meaning of: accept, apprehend, catch (on), compass, comprehend, conceive, fathom, follow, get, grasp, make out, see, sense, take, take in, understand. Informal: savvy. Slang: dig. Chiefly British: twig. Scots: ken. Idioms: get (or have) a handle on, get the picture. See UNDERSTAND. 2. To understand in a particular way: construe, interpret, take. See UNDERSTAND. 3. To give a precise indication of, as on a register or scale: indicate, mark, record, register, show. See SHOW.