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learn

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contemplate

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Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

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a careful considering of a matter

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the condition of being so lost in solitary thought as to be unaware of one's surroundings

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repetition of an action so as to develop or maintain one's skill

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to apply one's mind to the acquisition or production of knowledge

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a detailed critical inspection

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applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)

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a state of deep mental absorption

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a room used for reading and writing and studying

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preliminary drawing for later elaboration

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attentive consideration and meditation

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someone who memorizes quickly and easily (as the lines for a part in a play)

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a composition intended to develop one aspect of the performer's technique

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be a student

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be a student of a certain subject

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think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes

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I esteemed eloquence highly, and was in raptures with poesy; but I thought that both were gifts of nature rather than fruits of study. Those in whom the faculty of reason is predominant, and who most skillfully dispose their thoughts with a view to render them clear and intelligible, are always the best able to persuade others of the truth of what they lay down, though they should speak only in the language of Lower Brittany, and be wholly ignorant of the rules of rhetoric; and those whose minds are stored with the most agreeable fancies, and who can give expression to them with the greatest embellishment and harmony, are still the best poets, though unacquainted with the art of poetry.
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Gerasim looked cautiously into the study several times and saw Pierre always sitting in the same attitude.
All the rest of that day Pierre spent alone in his benefactor's study, and Gerasim heard him pacing restlessly from one corner to another and talking to himself.
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He was alive, painfully alive, to the great universal things, and yet he was compelled to potter and grope among schoolboy topics and debate whether or not he should study Latin.
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Such gifts as keenness and ready powers of acquisition; for the mind more often faints from the severity of study than from the severity of gymnastics: the toil is more entirely the mind's own, and is not shared with the body.
Further, he of whom we are in search should have a good memory, and be an unwearied solid man who is a lover of labour in any line; or he will never be able to endure the great amount of bodily exercise and to go through all the intellectual discipline and study which we require of him.
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Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.
Mac did come again, glad to find something he could study in spite of his weak eyes, and learned much that was of more value than anything his school had ever taught thim.
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Anna smiled, as people smile at the weaknesses of those they love, and, putting her hand under his, she escorted him to the door of the study. She knew his habit, that had grown into a necessity, of reading in the evening.
"Well, God be with you," she said at the door of the study, where a shaded candle and a decanter of water were already put by his armchair.
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He found Rose in the study, with his feet on the chimney-piece, talking eighteen to the dozen with half a dozen boys who were sitting on whatever there was to sit on.
"I say, I'm jolly glad we're in the same study this term.
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"Fa-a-a-ag!" sounded along the passage from Flashman's study. The two boys looked at one another in silence.
He brought as much money as other boys to school, but got rid of it in no time, no one knew how; and then, being also reckless, borrowed from any one; and when his debts accumulated and creditors pressed, would have an auction in the hall of everything he possessed in the world, selling even his school-books, candlestick, and study table.
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Hence the study of animal behaviour has been gradually led to abandon all attempt at mental interpretation.
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