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Turn :: Turn (n.) A fall off the ladder at the gallows; a hanging; -- so called from the practice of causing the criminal to stand on a ladder which was turned over, so throwing him off, when the signal was given..

Construe :: Construe (v. t. ) To put a construction upon; to explain the sense or intention of; to interpret; to understand.

Substitute :: Substitute (n.) One who, or that which, is substituted or put in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu of something else.

Graduate :: Graduate (n.) To admit or elevate to a certain grade or degree; esp., in a college or university, to admit, at the close of the course, to an honorable standing defined by a diploma; as, he was graduated at Yale College..

Reach :: Reach (v. t.) To understand; to comprehend.

Picket :: Picket (v. t.) To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

Clear :: Clear (v. t.) To render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to make perspicacious..

Before :: Before (prep.) In front of; preceding in space; ahead of; as, to stand before the fire; before the house..

Up :: Up (adv.) In a higher place or position, literally or figuratively; in the state of having arisen; in an upright, or nearly upright, position; standing; mounted on a horse; in a condition of elevation, prominence, advance, proficiency, excitement, insurrection, or the like; -- used with verbs of rest, situation, condition, and the like; as, to be up on a hill; the lid of the box was up; prices are up..

Flake :: Flake (n.) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc..

Intellect :: Intellect (n.) The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; the power to judge and comprehend; the thinking faculty; the understanding..

Insulated :: Insulated (p. a.) Standing by itself; not being contiguous to other bodies; separated; unconnected; isolated; as, an insulated house or column..

Potential :: Potential (n.) The energy of an electrical charge measured by its power to do work; hence, the degree of electrification as referred to some standard, as that of the earth; electro-motive force..

Banner :: Banner (n.) Any flag or standard; as, the star-spangled banner..

Digest :: Digest (v. t.) To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.

Incommensurable :: Incommensurable (a.) Not commensurable; having no common measure or standard of comparison; as, quantities are incommensurable when no third quantity can be found that is an aliquot part of both; the side and diagonal of a square are incommensurable with each other; the diameter and circumference of a circle are incommensurable..

Archetype :: Archetype (n.) The standard weight or coin by which others are adjusted.

Unit :: Unit (n.) Any determinate amount or quantity (as of length, time, heat, value) adopted as a standard of measurement for other amounts or quantities of the same kind..

Intellection :: Intellection (n.) A mental act or process; especially: (a) The act of understanding; simple apprehension of ideas; intuition. Bentley. (b) A creation of the mind itself.

Babble :: Babble (v. i.) To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat, as words, in a childish way without understanding..

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