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comprehension

Comprehension is the understanding of the meaning or importance of something. Reading comprehension questions are often on tests in schools.

comprehension

an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result) how you can do that is beyond my comprehension he was famous for his comprehension of American literature (= inclusion) the relation of comprising something he admired the inclusion of so many ideas in such a short work

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Simple sentences

Each chapter in the textbook is followed by about a dozen comprehension questions.
It's beyond my comprehension.
Everyone who uses Esperanto or works for it, is an Esperantist, and every Esperantist has the complete right, in Esperanto, to see only the language as a simple, cold tool for international comprehension.
There is a global problem of comprehension.
There's a global problem of comprehension.
Popular lectures are the easiest to listen to, but they are necessarily both superficial and misleading, since they have to be graded to the comprehension of an ignorant audience.
Why he did it is beyond my comprehension.
That was beyond my comprehension.

Movie subtitles

Pigs in a sty have more comprehension or cleanliness than you buggers have.
This is a mystery beyond my powers of comprehension.
Col. Mitchell, do you have any comprehension how fast a thousand miles an hour is?
But can we claim that the feeling is beyond comprehension?
Whatever it is. whatever intelligence or instinct it is. that can govern the forming of human flesh and blood. out of thin air is. well, it's fantastically powerful. beyond any comprehension, malignant.
I know that strange, devilish forces do exist. with powers beyond the comprehension of mere mortal men.
I'd do anything for you - but this was a matter of principle - a kind of flash of comprehension something in my head lit up.
It was beyond my comprehension.
But as a man, I admit to many things which are beyond my comprehension.
And apparently commanding powers far beyond our comprehension.
We discover a new planet in our own solar system, with military and scientific implications beyond comprehension.
The abstract concepts of an intellectual society are beyond their comprehension.
Although the method is beyond our comprehension, we have been offered contact.
Objects which are beyond his comprehension, he will not see at all.
Your opinions Mr. Holmes are undoubtedly the result of your inability to cope with something beyond the realm of your comprehension.
But Venus has an energy source with a mass beyond comprehension.
Goodnight. I know that strange, devilish forces do exist with powers beyond the comprehension of mere mortal men.
And the closest to man in comprehension.
Powers beyond human comprehension.
Just for comprehension.
Military and scientific implications beyond comprehension.
Somehow, without my direct comprehension of it, it has fallen into the hands of my two sullen interns.
That device is beyond all our comprehension.
Powers beyond the comprehension of unbelievers.
Though the power of such travel is beyond my scientific comprehension, it is not beyond my imagination.
Beyond their comprehension.
Because his evil is beyond our comprehension.
We were humoring him, but we know he's not crazy and we all know, deep in our hearts he may be onto something beyond our own comprehension!
I coalesce the vapor of human experience into a viable and logical comprehension.
If you mean am I still this side of reasonable comprehension then yes.
Or is it pure communication beyond our comprehension?
Hey, I think it's this sensation of silently being listened to. with total comprehension.
They say she has always been this way. with no response or comprehension. And yet.

News and current affairs

But, without a degree of prudence based upon comprehension of the context, visions turn from grand to grandiose and undercut the values that they seek to promote.
Poverty leads to lower comprehension of the disease, with individuals less likely to protect themselves by using condoms.
It's possible that Bush read those reports, but that they were beyond his comprehension.
ABU DHABI - We have created an online world whose vastness exceeds our comprehension.
One hopes that this is just a temporary phase, and that comprehension of Poland's real achievements will prevail over the hyper-sensitivity of its current leaders.
Doctors rely on observation of memory loss and other thinking deficits (such as reasoning or language comprehension) - signs that plaques are already present in the brain.

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