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apprehensible

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ap·pre·hen·si·ble  (pr-hns-bl)
adj.
Capable of being understood: apprehensible truths.

appre·hensi·bly adv.
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Adj.1.apprehensibleapprehensible - capable of being apprehended or understood
comprehendible, comprehensible - capable of being comprehended or understood; "an idea comprehensible to the average mind"

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Because such similar passages occur three times with regard to three different women, Fauset implies that Jewish racial identity is immediately apprehensible based on appearance, whereas African American blood only shows Black to Black.
There, Banham uses the term to escape from classical aesthetics, to refer to something that, while not conforming to traditional canons of judgment, nevertheless was, in his terms, "visually valuable," requiring "that the building should be an immediately apprehensible visual entity, and that the form grasped by the eye should be confirmed by experience of the building in use.
Although Ona's death appears initially as the originating loss that would seem either to motivate the reverse chronology or to resolve a progressive one, when the event of the suicide is at last reached, it dissolves, apprehensible not as an origin but as a symptom of the Leong family's collective condition.
 
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