introspect

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A little halt for introspect,

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  1. intransitive verb To engage in introspection.

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  • Unable to introspect or contemplate metaphor-driven scenarios, they experienced auditory hallucinations - voices of gods actually heard as the —  California Literary Review
  • Unable to introspect, resolve its huge race, caste & religious imbroglios —  Bloggers.Pakistan
  • Solution: Fixing "AfPak" expedites the inevitable union between Pakistan & Afghanistan The emerging "Leave Pakistan to Afghanistan" strategy goes mainstream -- Extricating the US from the Lost in the Khyber Mumbai: Intoxicated India, deaf and blind to internal terror, unable to introspect, resolve its huge race, caste, religious problems —  Bloggers.Pakistan
  • TheBigN, Roxas, Sasa, Hidoshi, j. valdez, DS, introspect, DKellis, iniksbane, Xerox, and all the IRC regulars along with those in the ABC or my blogroll that I can't exactly fit in this paragraph due to space constraints - Thank you. —  Design daily news
  • More importantly, it is an opportunity for us as a society to introspect. —  NDTV News - Top Stories
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  1. Latin intrōspicere, intrōspect-, to look into : intrō-, within; see en in Indo-European roots + specere, to look at; see spek- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin introspectare, freq. of introspicere, past participle introspectus, look into, from intro, within, + spicere, look.
 

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/ɪntrəˈspɛkt/
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