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n. [written exercises, oral questions, or practical tasks, set to test a candidate's knowledge and skill]

n. a detailed inspection of your conscience (as done daily by Jesuits)

n. the act of giving students or candidates a test (as by questions) to determine what they know or have learned

n. a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge; "when the test was stolen the professor had to make a new set of questions"

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rumination

n. regurgitation of small amounts of food; seen in some infants after feeding

thinking, thought, thought process, cerebration, intellection, mentation

n. the process of using your mind to consider something carefully; "thinking always made him frown"; "she paused for thought"

experiment, experimentation

n. the testing of an idea; "it was an experiment in living"; "not all experimentation is done in laboratories"

analysis, analytic thinking

n. the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations

challenge

n. a call to engage in a contest or fight

interrogation

n. a transmission that will trigger an answering transmission from a transponder

look, looking, looking at

n. the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually; "he went out to have a look"; "his look was fixed on her eyes"; "he gave it a good looking at"; "his camera does his looking for him"

recapitulation

n. (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated

review

n. (law) a judicial reexamination of the proceedings of a court (especially by an appellate court)

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