GROK

grok, get the picture, comprehend, savvy, dig, grasp, compass, apprehend

(verb) get the meaning of something; “Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

grok (third-person singular simple present groks, present participle grokking, simple past and past participle grokked)

(transitive, slang) To understand (something) intuitively, to know (something) without having to think intellectually.

(transitive, slang) To fully and completely understand something in all of its details and intricacies.

Usage notes

Grok is used mainly by the geek subculture, though it was heavily used by the counterculture of the 1960s, as evidenced by its repeated appearance in Tom Wolfe's “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.”

Anagrams

• gork

Source: Wiktionary



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