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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Understanding and comprehending
appreciation for something
apprehend
apprehensible
apprehension
astutely
bear
dot
handle
keep someone up
know a hawk from a handsawidiom
know the scoreidiom
know/see where someone is coming fromidiom
latch
speak
to get a handle on somethingidiom
to have a handle on somethingidiom
tumble to something
tune in
uncomprehending
understanding

construe | American Dictionary

construe
verb[ T ]
us/kənˈstru/
to understand the meaning of something in a particular way:
That comment could be construed in either of two ways.

Examples of construe

construe
On neither of these ways of construing the existence question does it present a substantial philosophical issue.
Because of its relationship to the debate construed as the central debate for linguistic anthropology, their work is also construed as crucially theoretical.
Language can no longer be construed simply as a medium, relatively or potentially transparent, for the representation or expression of a reality outside itself.
The axiom on which this argument trades is in fact quite difficult to construe.
This study has two parts: some reflections on periods and periodizing in general, and a survey of various ways of construing the music-historical eighteenth century.
A crucial question, though, is how exactly we should construe the normativity here.
However, these two strategies should not be construed as mutually exclusive.
On this analysis, the voicing alternation is construed as having a consistent function, marking 'marked ' number.
In either case the two gerunds are symmetrically coordinated or parallel, in that each one could be construed as being in construction with the auxiliary.
Secondly, were these effects present only in the years that were construed as conferring mandates?
Allowing heretical or schismatic baptism blurred that boundary, and was construed only problematically in terms of the cosmic narrative that required redefinition by both sides.
This creative and challenging book contributes to a better understanding of how speakers of different languages construe space in different ways.
These reasons have all been construed as paternalist motives for the state to intervene.
The focus of this study is narrowly construed.
The ethical imperative derived from these principles is that one ought to do what maximizes moral value so construed.
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