v.

• depict
,
• hone
,
• experiment
,
• describe
,
• drill
,
• dry run
.

• direct
,
• act
,
• concern
,
• clear
,
• behave
,
• attend to
,
• handle
,
• approach
,
• cope with
.

• cogitate
,
• interrogate
,
• confab
,
• consider
,
• commune
,
• huddle
,
• interview
,
• collogue
,
• brainstorm
,
• confabulate
,
• flap
.

• dispute
,
• agitate
,
• check over
,
• argue
,
• apply
,
• electioneer
,
• debate
,
• campaign
,
• consult
.

• cure
,
• improve
,
• doctor
,
• change
,
• help
,
• fiddle with
,
• alter
,
• emend
,
• ameliorate
,
• better
,
• debug
,
• amend
,
• fix up
.

• bleep
,
• delete
,
• control
,
• cork
,
• cut
,
• bleach
,
• blacklist
,
• excise
,
• black out
,
• expurgate
,
• decontaminate
,
• criticize
,
• bowdlerize
,
• edit
,
• conceal
,
• blue-pencil
.

• evoke
,
• create
,
• call
,
• contrive
.

• examine
,
• inspect
,
• hash over
,
• discuss
,
• assess
,
• correct
,
• analyze
,
• go over
,
• evaluate
,
• check out
,
• brush up
,
• debrief
.

• estimate
,
• find
,
• approximate
,
• draw
,
• distinguish
,
• arbitrate
,
• arrive
,
• gather
,
• derive
,
• act on
,
• deduct
,
• collect
,
• adjudicate
,
• appreciate
,
• doom
,
• decree
,
• esteem
,
• decide
,
• determine
,
• discern
,
• conclude
,
• condemn
.

• deem
,
• adjudge
,
• figure
,
• assay
,
• check
,
• calculate
,
• guesstimate
,
• figure out
,
• gauge
,
• audit
,
• eye
.

• drum
,
• grind away
.

• feel out
,
• give the once over
,
• delve
,
• bug
.

• abridge
,
• abbreviate
,
• condense
,
• digest
.

• imbibe
,
• attain
,
• enroll
,
• grind
,
• get
,
• drink in
,
• grasp
,
• apprentice
,
• gain
.

• converse
,
• go into
,
• contend
,
• canvass
,
• altercate
,
• confer
,
• get together
,
• dissertate
,
• descant
,
• explain
,
• contest
.

• eyeball
,
• confirm
,
• count
,
• case
,
• find out
,
• candle
,
• ascertain
,
• compare
,
• frisk
.

• hark back
,
• cite
,
• call up
,
• bethink
.

• chaw
,
• contemplate
,
• delay
.

• go through
,
• balance
.

• finger
,
• inquire
,
• chew over
,
• dig into
,
• explore
,
• gun
.

• catechize
,
• clock
.

• compile
,
• boil down
,
• abstract
,
• cut down
,
• encapsulate
,
• cipher
,
• cut back
.

• bone up
.

• develop
.

• contain
,
• arrange
,
• comment
,
• interpret
,
• advise
.

• close
.

• conjecture
,
• hypothesize
,
• guess
,
• excogitate
,
• cerebrate
.

• hit the books
.

• dig
.

• clean up
,
• cram
.

• appraise
.

• epitomize
.

adj.

• conscious
,
• calculated
,
• designed
,
• aforethought
,
• affected
,
• advised
,
• deliberate
.

• checked
.

• abstracted
,
• considered
,
• analyzed
.