grok

[ grok ]

verb (used with object)
  1. to understand thoroughly and intuitively: The code is simple enough that you should be able to grok what it does.

verb (used without object)
  1. to communicate sympathetically.

Origin of grok

1
Coined by Robert A. Heinlein in the science-fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)

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