read
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read |
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absorb, announce, appreciate, apprehend, assign to, assimilate, be with one, bone, catch, catch on, comprehend, con, conceive, construe,
contemplate, correct copy, debate,
decipher, declaim, define, deliver, demagogue, describe, diagnose, dig,
digest, drill, elocute,
elucubrate, examine, fathom,
feel out, fly a kite, follow, get, get hold of, get the drift, get the idea, get the picture, go in for, go over, grasp, grind,
harangue, have, have it taped,
hold forth, impute to, indicate,
interpret, ken, know, learn, look over, lucubrate, major in, mark, master, minor in, mouth, orate, out-herod Herod, perorate, peruse, plunge into, pore over, practice, present, probe,
proofread, rabble-rouse, rant, read for, read into, read law, realize, recite, record, regard studiously, register, restudy, review, rodomontade, savvy, say, scan, seize,
seize the meaning, sense, skim,
sound, sound out, specialize in,
spiel, spout, study, study for, study to be, swot,
take, take in, take it that,
take to mean, tub-thump, understand, understand by, vet, wade through
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read the riot act |
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admonish, bring to book, call to account,
chastise, chide, correct, have words with, lecture, objurgate, rate, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reprove, scold, set down, set
straight, spank, straighten out, take down, take to task, upbraid
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well-read |
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acquainted with, at home in, at home with, conversant with, familiar with, informed in, intimate with, master of, proficient in, strong in, up on, versed in, well-educated, well-grounded, well-informed, well-posted, well-read in,
well-versed, widely read
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Main entries similar to: read
absorb, appreciate, apprehend, assimilate, bone, burn the midnight oil, carry, catch, catch on, comprehend, con, conceive, construe, contemplate, debate, decipher, declaim, define, deliver, demagogue, describe, detect, diagnose, dig, digest, drill, examine, fathom,
follow, get, get hold of, get the hang of, get the picture,
give, go, go over, grasp, grind, harangue, have, hold forth,
interpret, ken, know, learn, look, make, mark, master, mine, mouth, orate,
perorate, peruse, plunge into, pore, pore over, practice, probe, rant,
realize, recite, record, register, review, savvy, say, seize,
sense, show, sound, spiel, spout, study, swot, take, take in, understand, vet, wade through
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