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Verbs of Mental Processes - Verbs for Cognition and Perception

Here you will learn some English verbs referring to cognition and perception such as "understand", "decipher", and "realize".

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Categorized English Verbs Denoting Mental Processes
to know

to have some information about something

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to understand

to know something's meaning, particularly something that someone says

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to interpret

to understand or assign meaning to something

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to comprehend

to fully understand something, especially something complicated

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to figure out

to reach an understanding of a person's actions, motives, or personality

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to apprehend

to mentally grasp or understand

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to decipher

to interpret or understand something that is difficult or unclear

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to realize

to have a sudden or complete understanding of a fact or situation

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to dawn on

to become clear, evident, or understood, particularly after some time

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to occur to

(of thoughts and ideas) to come to someone's mind

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to fathom

to understand and make sense of something after giving it a lot of thought

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to see through

to understand the true intentions of something or someone

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to savvy

to understand something

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to recognize

to know who a person or what an object is, because we have heard, seen, etc. them before

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to grok

to deeply understand something

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to discern

to understand something through thought or reasoning

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to construe

to interpret a certain meaning from something

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to identify

to be able to say who or what someone or something is

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to cognize

to understand or become aware of something through thinking or consciousness

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to notice

to pay attention and become aware of a particular thing or person

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to sink in

to gradually understand a concept, often accompanied by an emotional response

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to distinguish

to recognize and mentally separate two things, people, etc.

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to know from

to distinguish or identify between two things or individuals based on knowledge or familiarity

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to think

to use your mind to understand something, solve a problem, make a decision, etc. or to use it to consider someone or something

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to see

to realize or understand something

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to deduce

to determine by a process of logical reasoning

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to infer

to reach an opinion or decision based on available evidence and one's understanding of the matter

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to gather

to understand information based on what is available

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to intuit

to grasp or comprehend something instinctively and without conscious reasoning

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to make out

to understand something

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to perceive

to realize through the five senses

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to sense

to perceive, understand, or comprehend, especially through intuition or awareness

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to detect

to notice or discover something that is difficult to find

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to spot

to notice or see someone or something that is hard to do so

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to read

to look at written or printed words or symbols and understand their meaning

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to read through

to carefully read something from start to finish, often with the purpose of identifying errors

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