See comprehend in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
verb
To perceive and recognize the meaning of:
accept, apprehend, catch (on), compass, conceive, fathom, follow, get, grasp, make out, read, see, sense, take, take in, understand. (Informal) savvy. (Slang) dig. (Chiefly British) twig. (Scots) ken. Idioms: get (or have) a handle on, get the picture. See understandTo perceive directly with the intellect:
apprehend, compass, fathom, grasp, know, understand. (Scots) ken. See knowledgeTo have as a part:
comprise, contain, embody, embrace, encompass, have, include, involve, subsume, take in. See include
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