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grokked

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grok

  [grok] Slang.
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–verb (used with object)
1. to understand thoroughly and intuitively.
–verb (used without object)
2. to communicate sympathetically.
Origin:
coined by Robert A. Heinlein in the science-fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)
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grok   (grŏk)   
tr.v.   grok·ked, grok·king, groks Slang
To understand profoundly through intuition or empathy.

[Coined by Robert A. Heinlein in his Stranger in a Strange Land.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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