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ruminate
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    I was afraid I'd deliberate, ruminate, agonize, rationalize, and talk myself into not going.  (source)
    ruminate = think
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    The entries in McCandless's journal contain few abstractions about wilderness or, for that matter, few ruminations of any kind.  (source)
    ruminations = sustained thoughts
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    While I've been ruminating on the availability of trees, Peeta has been struggling with how to maintain his identity.  (source)
    ruminating = thinking
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    While reading up on his life in preparation for this award, I came upon a passage that he wrote that seemed particularly consistent with the themes I touched on earlier, themes I've been ruminating upon all year long.  (source)
    ruminating = thinking about
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    "Job ought to be easy enough," he ruminated.  (source)
    ruminated = thought
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    Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them.†  (source)
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    Has there been an uptick in your rumination or intrusive thoughts?†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", 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 action, education, and observation.
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    I've heard this before, too, during one of Dad's endless ruminations about what the Others might look like.†  (source)
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    After a scientific expedition to America, Aronnax ruminates over the true nature of the incidents.†  (source)
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    As I watched him walk up the steps to the landing, I saw him retrieve the joint-end from his jacket pocket and run it under his nose again, ruminatively.†  (source)
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    Writers (my kind of writers: aspiring novelists, ruminative thinkers, people whose brains don't work quick enough to blog or link or tweet, basically old, stubborn blowhards) were through.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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    "'Tis time to change our natur's," he observed to the brother of his wife, who was rarely far from his elbow; "and to become ruminators, instead of people used to the fare of Christians and free men.†  (source)
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    She did not answer at once, but after looking down ruminatingly she said, with some earnestness, "Mr. Casaubon must have overcome his dislike of you so far as his actions were concerned: and that is admirable."†  (source)
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