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grok
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grok  (grk)
tr.v. grok·ked, grok·king, groks Slang
To understand profoundly through intuition or empathy.
[Coined by Robert A. Heinlein in his Stranger in a Strange Land.]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Verb1.grokgrok - get the meaning of something; "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?"
apprehend, comprehend, get the picture, savvy, grasp, compass, dig
understand - know and comprehend the nature or meaning of; "She did not understand her husband"; "I understand what she means"
figure - understand; "He didn't figure her"
catch on, cotton on, get it, get onto, get wise, twig, latch on, tumble - understand, usually after some initial difficulty; "She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on"
intuit - know or grasp by intuition or feeling
digest - arrange and integrate in the mind; "I cannot digest all this information"


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For example, the phrase "curriculum supervision" can be grokked to categories that include curriculum evaluation, teacher education and staff development.
Odvard Egil Dyrli on visual search tools: Grokker and related tools ... by Dyrli, Odvard Egil / District Administration
Pynchon thoroughly grokked the Golden State, as The Crying of Lot 49, Vineland, and his 1966 essay on the Watts riots all make clear (even the mysterious Wanda Tinasky sent her letters to Mendocino County's Anderson Valley Advertiser).
Pynchon from A to V: Rocket redux; Gerald Howard on Gravity's ... by Erickson, Steve / Artforum International
When a Boston University student named Lanny Friedlander started reason back in 1968 as a mimeographed call to arms--well, let's just say he very much grokked the Russian-born writer.
Rand redux by Gillespie, Nick / Reason
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