3.2.2 Learn

Use this domain for words referring to learning something, acquiring information, gaining knowledge (whether done intentionally or unintentionally), or discovering the answer to some question.

Louw Nida Codes: 
27 Learn
27A Learn
  • What words refer to learning something?
    learn, acquaint, acquire, ascertain, conclude, dawn on, deduce, determine, discover, examine, experience, figure out, find, get (the answer), glean, grasp (mentally), gain (knowledge/understanding), look something up, master, obtain, perceive, pick someone's brain, pick up (a subject), question (v), realize, recognize, reflect, study, get an education,
  • What words refer to learning something no one else knows or something that is secret?
    discover, discovery, find out about
  • What words refer to someone who is learning?
    amateur, disciple, layman, student,
  • What words describe someone who is learning?
    ignorant, uneducated, unlearned
  • What words refer to someone who has learned?
    graduate, teacher, scholar,
  • What words describe someone who has learned?
    instructed, learned, well-taught,
  • What words refer to what is learned?
    learning, answer, solution, information, conclusion, discovery, discipline, education, initiation, instruction, training,

    • 3.2.2.1 Study

    Use this domain for words referring to studying--to try to learn something.

    OMC Codes: 
    120 Research Methods
    Methodology
    121 Theoretical Orientation in Research and Its Results
    122 Practical Preparations in Conducting Fieldwork
    123 Observational Role in Research
    124 Interviewing in Research
    125 Tests and Schedules Administered In the Field
    126 Recording and Collecting In the Field
    127 Historical and Archival Research
    128 Organization and Analysis of Results of Research
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    27D Try To Learn
  • What words refer to studying something?
    study, analyze, check, concern yourself with, consider, determine, examine, experiment (v), follow, inquire into, investigate, learn, look into/for, look something up, probe, prowl, seek, search, research, study, test, trace, track, trail, try to find out about,
  • What words refer to the process of trying to learn something?
    evaluation, examination, experiment (n), investigation, inquiry, quest, study, search
  • What words refer to the subject that is being studied?
    subject, topic, question
  • What words refer to studying something a second time?
    review, revise (British)
  • What words refer to a person who studies something?
    astronomer, biologist, botanist, detective, investigator, linguist, mathematician, operative, reconnoiterer, scientist, scout, spy, undercover agent, zoologist
  • What words describe someone who likes to study?
    studious, inquisitive,

    • 3.2.2.2 Check

    Use this domain for words referring to checking something--when you think something is true or correct, but you aren't sure, you do something to find out if it is true or correct.

  • What words refer to checking something to make sure it is true or correct?
    check, make sure, make certain, double-check, verify, confirm, check out, crosscheck, see for yourself, check up on,

    • 3.2.2.3 Evaluate, test

    Use this domain for words referring to the process of determining the truth or falsehood of something, or for determining the nature or value of something.

    OMC Codes: 
    125 Tests and Schedules Administered In the Field
    208 Public Opinion
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    30G To Distinguish, To Evaluate, To Judge
  • What words refer to the process of determining the truth of something?
    adjudge, adjudicate, assay, assess, assessment, calculate, consider, decide, decision, determine, discern, estimate, evaluate, evaluation, examine, gauge, judge, judgment, judicious, question, regard, render, scrupulous, seek (truth), size, taste, test, testing, view
  • What words refer to the process of determining the value of something?
    appraisal, appraise, evaluate, weigh (the merits of)
  • What words refer to choosing which of two or more things is better?
    differentiate, differentiation, discriminate, distinguish, rank, rate, rating, separate, hold in esteem, hold up,
  • What words refer to the thing that is thought better?
    choice,
  • What words refer to thinking something is not as good as something else?
    discount, disregard, devalue, dismiss
  • What words refer to the difference between two things?
    difference, distinction, distinctions,
  • What words refer to judging wrongly?
    indiscriminate, miscalculate, misjudge, overestimate, uncritical,
  • What words refer to a person who evaluates?
    referee, tester,
  • What words refer to a report of an evaluation?
    report, reputation, reward,
  • What words refer to being evaluated as better than before?
    move up, rise, climb, shoot up,

    • 3.2.2.4 Guess

    Use this domain for words referring to answering a question when one is unsure of the answer.

  • What words refer to answering a question when you are unsure of the answer?
    guess, estimate, suppose, assume, theorize
  • What words refer to what is being guessed?
    guess, estimate, supposition, assumption, theory, intuition

    • 3.2.2.5 Solve

    Use this domain for words related to solving something--finding the answer to something that is difficult to understand.

  • What words refer to solving something?
    solve, figure out, work out, clear up, find an explanation, answer, calculate, calculator

    • 3.2.2.6 Realize

    Use this domain for words related to realizing something.

  • What words refer to realizing something?
    realize, occur to, dawn on, become aware that, strike, hit, sink in, wake up to the fact that, it clicked,

    • 3.2.2.7 Willing to learn

    Use this domain for words referring to being willing to learn or unwilling to learn.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    27E Be Willing To Learn
  • What words refer to being willing to learn?
    willing to learn, open your mind, open-minded, open to new ideas, teachable,
  • What words refer to being unwilling to learn?
    unwilling to learn, close your mind, closed minded, refuse to learn, won't listen to reason, stubborn, hard heart, mind made up
  • What words refer to wanting to learn something?
    curious, interested