To “grok” something means to deeply understand and connect with it. Here’s an example sentence: “After spending months studying the culture, she finally began to grok the nuances of their traditional customs.” This means she not only understood the customs intellectually, but also emotionally and intuitively connected with them. The word “grok” was popularized by Robert A. Heinlein’s 1961 science fiction novel “Stranger in a Strange Land,” where it’s used to describe a profound, almost spiritual level of understanding.
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