Look and Understand

Look

Look verb - To give the impression of being.

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Understand and look are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Understand" instead a verb "Look".

Nearby Words: lookout, looked, looker, looking, lookup

Understand verb - To form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information.

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Look and understand are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Look" instead a verb "Understand".

love	look love	understand love
power	look power	understand power
people	look people	understand people
part	look part	understand part
Other words: time, way, world, humans, powers.

To understand why, it is necessary to look at what things looked like immediately prior.

Source: Useful Notes / The Renaissance Age of Animation
In Joan of Arcadia, wherein God tells Joan directly, "I look and sound like this because this is what you can understand." Check the page quote for more.

Source: A Form You Are Comfortable With
Though there are a lot of pictures of squid and there are slithering sounds and the earliest buildings look like people tried to make sense of geometry they did not fully understand.

Source: Eldritch Abomination / Literature

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