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31torment — tormentedly, adv. tormentingly, adv. tormentingness, n. v. /tawr ment , tawr ment/; n. /tawr ment/, v.t. 1. to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches. 2. to worry or annoy excessively: to… …
32thought — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Mental activity Nouns 1. thought, thoughtfulness; reflection, cogitation, consideration, meditation, study, lucubration, speculation, deliberation, pondering; head work, brainwork; cerebration; deep… …
33contemplate — v 1. watch, keep an eye on, keep a vigil, rivet one s eye upon, stare at, gaze at, view, look at; attend, pay attention to, mind, heed; observe, regard, eye, peer, pry; survey, reconnoiter, scrutinize, scan, examine, inspect; witness, see, notice …
34think — v 1. conceive, imagine, image, picture; ideate, form an image of, think of, dream up; dream, envisage, visualize, make up, conjure, feature; concoct, hatch, brew, fabricate, fashion, form, formulate. 2. meditate, ponder, reason, deliberate;… …
35cogitate — v 1. meditate, contemplate, think, cerebrate, put on one s thinking cap, be lost in thought, beabstracted, be absorbed, be immersed, be engrossed, concentrate, focus, put one s mind to; muse, ponder, brood, mull over, dwell on, be in a brown… …
36meditate — v 1. devise, contrive, machinate, cabal, plan, scheme, plot, design, Obs. intrigue, Obs. consult; frame, concoct, invent, brew, hatch; purpose, aim, project, destine, intend, mean, have in view; conceive, think up, imagine, fancy, have ideas… …
37contrive — I. v. a. Devise, plan, design, invent, project, hatch, brew, form, frame, concoct, fall upon, hit upon, strike out, chalk out. II. v. n. 1. Scheme, plot, plan, consider, set one s wits to work, rack one s brains, cudget one s brains, strain one s …
38lucubrate — v 1. study, apply oneself, excogitate, cerebrate, con, cogitate, burn the midnight oil; dig, grind, Brit. Inf. swot, Brit. Inf. vet, Inf. cram, Sl. hit the books, Sl. crack the books; toil, fag, moil, slave; pore over, concentrate, deliberate,… …
39concentrate — [v1] think about closely apply, attend, be engrossed in, bring to bear, brood over, center, consider closely, contemplate, crack one’s brains*, direct attention, establish, examine, fixate, fix attention, focus, focus attention, get on the beam* …
40deliberate — adj 1. intentional, purposeful, meant, destined, willful, volitional, voluntary; premeditated, preconceived, preconceptional, aforethought, prede terminate, predetermined, prepense; meditated, studious, studied, considered, weighed; preconcerted …
