Contemplate
Contemplate verb - To give serious and careful thought to.
Want and contemplate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Want" instead a verb "Contemplate".
Want
Want verb - To have an earnest wish to own or enjoy.
Contemplate and want are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Contemplate" instead a verb "Want".
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Brick Joke: In Chapter 14, Sarin suggestion to Aki that she might want to turn into a man again to conceive a child with Goro is too embarrassing to contemplate.
Source: Webcomic / The Dragon Doctors - The Dragon Doctors had a gag in Chapter 14 — Sarin's suggestion to Aki that she might want to turn into a man again to conceive a child with Goro, one which is too embarrassing to contemplate — return in Chapter 20, but was too adorable for words, instead.
Source: Brick Joke / Web Comics - She becomes distraught when he flunks out, leading her to contemplate divorce, even though she had always known he never was and never wanted to be the intellectual type she seemed to want to turn him into.
Source: I Can Change My Beloved
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