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    That's the sort of thing I'll never know, or comprehend—what humans are capable of.  (source)
    comprehend = fully understand
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    You cannot comprehend its resistless fascination for me.  (source)
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    He felt as if he was walking in a dream, not quite able to comprehend what was going on around him.  (source)
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    For her part, Winnie, now that the running was over, began to comprehend what was happening,  (source)
    comprehend = understand
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    The mayor's voice kept coming in blasts of incomprehensible sound, and the people in the crowd were either shouting angrily or yelping in fear of being squashed.  (source)
    incomprehensible = not understandable
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incomprehensible means not and reverses the meaning of comprehensible. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    The others nodded in perfect comprehension.  (source)
    comprehension = understanding
    standard suffix: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
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    Also they spoke different variations of English, different Englishes, and so when Nadia gave voice to an idea or opinion among them, she did not need to fear that her views could not be comprehended, for her English was like theirs, one among many.†  (source)
    comprehended = understood completely
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    He felt a lapse of all knowledge of Emma as his wife, and of comprehending the future,  (source)
    comprehending = understanding
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    He would have been amazed, uncomprehending if I refused to forgive him.†  (source)
    uncomprehending = not understanding
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncomprehending means not and reverses the meaning of comprehending. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    That was comprehensible.  (source)
    comprehensible = understandable
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    I look up, to see Suze staring at me in utter incomprehension.†  (source)
    incomprehension = lack of understanding of something
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incomprehension means not and reverses the meaning of comprehension. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    For a moment, he'd stared at her uncomprehendingly.†  (source)
    uncomprehendingly = without understanding
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncomprehendingly means not and reverses the meaning of comprehendingly. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Home seems impossibly, incomprehensibly far away, and I don't see how I'll ever make it back.†  (source)
    incomprehensibly = in a manner that cannot be understood
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incomprehensibly means not and reverses the meaning of comprehensibly. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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