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peruse (puh ROOZ) (verb)
1. To study or to consider with close attention to details: Please peruse this essay carefully and check for spelling errors.
2. To look at or to read something in an informal, casual, leisurely, or relaxed way; sometimes believed to be misleading or incorrect: Manfred decided to peruse the newspaper during his break while he enjoyed a snack.
2. To look at or to read something in an informal, casual, leisurely, or relaxed way; sometimes believed to be misleading or incorrect: Manfred decided to peruse the newspaper during his break while he enjoyed a snack.
pursue (puhr SOO) (verb)
1. To find ways to achieve or to accomplish something: Madeline decided to pursue a career in music.
2. To proceed or to follow: Shanna and Sherman were determined to pursue a course directly across the snowy field in order to get to their winter lodge.
3. To haunt or to afflict: The nightmares continued to pursue Trudy after having witnessed the horrible boating accident.
4. To be involved in: After his retirement, Norman was very happy to pursue his hobby of fishing.
5. To chase or to follow something in order to overtake, capture, or to kill it: The hunter spent a long time in an effort to pursue the deer in the forest so he could shoot it and return home with venison for his family.
2. To proceed or to follow: Shanna and Sherman were determined to pursue a course directly across the snowy field in order to get to their winter lodge.
3. To haunt or to afflict: The nightmares continued to pursue Trudy after having witnessed the horrible boating accident.
4. To be involved in: After his retirement, Norman was very happy to pursue his hobby of fishing.
5. To chase or to follow something in order to overtake, capture, or to kill it: The hunter spent a long time in an effort to pursue the deer in the forest so he could shoot it and return home with venison for his family.
Glenn wants to pursue a career in library sciences because it will make it possible for him to peruse the newest books and magazines.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group P; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
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us-, ut-
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pursue (verb), pursues; pursued; pursuing
1. To look for or to strive to achieve some object, desire, etc.: "Matilda and, her brother, Lane pursued with great determination their goals of becoming professional ballet dancers."
"Silas is pursuing a career in journalism."
2. To follow in an effort to overtake or to capture; to chase: "The robbers got into their car and the police pursued them until the criminals were caught at a road block."
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sequ-, sequi-, secut-, suit-, -sue
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