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- apprehend β If the police apprehend someone, they catch them and arrest them.
- observe β to see, watch, perceive, or notice: He observed the passersby in the street.
- apperceive β to be aware of perceiving
- get wise to β having the power of discerning and judging properly as to what is true or right; possessing discernment, judgment, or discretion.
- give β to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- calibrated β marked with units
- look through β the opacity and texture of paper when inspected by transmitted light.
- comprehend β If you cannot comprehend something, you cannot understand it.
- cognize β to perceive, become aware of, or know
- jawbone β a bone of either jaw; a maxilla or mandible.
- gunning β a weapon consisting of a metal tube, with mechanical attachments, from which projectiles are shot by the force of an explosive; a piece of ordnance.
- eyeballed β Simple past tense and past participle of eyeball.
- kenning β knowledge, understanding, or cognizance; mental perception: an idea beyond one's ken.
- decode β If you decode a message that has been written or spoken in a code, you change it into ordinary language.
- look over β the act of looking: a look of inquiry.
- get a load of β anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
- get hold of β to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- listen in β to give attention with the ear; attend closely for the purpose of hearing; give ear.
- muckrake β to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.
- forespeak β to predict; foretell.
- lipping β either of the two fleshy parts or folds forming the margins of the mouth and functioning in speech.
- break down β If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
- jawboned β Simple past tense and past participle of jawbone.
- button down β (of a shirt collar) having buttonholes so it can be buttoned to the body of the shirt.
- double-check β a simultaneous check by two pieces in which the moving of one piece to give check also results in discovering a check by another piece.
- foreknow β to know beforehand.
- construed β to give the meaning or intention of; explain; interpret.
- guesstimate β to estimate without substantial basis in facts or statistics.
- make book β to enter in a book or list; record; register.
- intuit β Understand or work out by instinct.
- check up β If you check up on something, you find out information about it.
- dope out β any thick liquid or pasty preparation, as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
- browse β If you browse in a shop, you look at things in a fairly casual way, in the hope that you might find something you like.
- caliper β Calipers are an instrument consisting of two long, thin pieces of metal joined together at one end, and are used to measure the size of things.
- carded β a machine for combing and paralleling fibers of cotton, flax, wool, etc., prior to spinning to remove short, undesirable fibers and produce a sliver.
- mull over β to study or ruminate; ponder.
- encipher β Convert (a message or piece of text) into a coded form ; encrypt.
- auscultate β to examine (a patient) by means of auscultation
- calibrating β Mark (a gauge or instrument) with a standard scale of readings.
- flash on β a brief, sudden burst of bright light: a flash of lightning.
- explain β Make (an idea, situation, or problem) clear to someone by describing it in more detail or revealing relevant facts or ideas.
- enciphered β Simple past tense and past participle of encipher.
- make of β to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- imaged β a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
- figure out β a numerical symbol, especially an Arabic numeral.
- measure β a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- auscultated β Simple past tense and past participle of auscultate.
- foretell β to tell of beforehand; predict; prophesy.
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- inspection β the act of inspecting or viewing, especially carefully or critically: an inspection of all luggage on the plane.