How to pronounce grok

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What grok means

verb

To understand something completely and deeply

In a sentence: After weeks of practice, Maya finally began to grok how fractions work.

Where it comes from: The writer Robert A. Heinlein made it up for a Martian language in his science-fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land. There it meant "to drink," and also to take something in completely.

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