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grok

Syllabification: (grok)
Pronunciation: /gräk/

Definition of grok

verb (groks, grokking, grokked)

[with object] informal
  • understand (something) intuitively or by empathy:because of all the commercials, children grok things immediately
  • [no object] empathize or communicate sympathetically; establish a rapport.

Origin:

mid 20th century: a word coined by Robert Heinlein (1907–88), American science fiction writer, in Stranger in a Strange Land

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