Pickpie
Pickpie teaches a few new words a day, each with a sentence a writer actually wrote.
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examine something closely and carefully
From Latin scrutari, “to search”
He screwed up his seeing eye to scrutinize the messenger more carefully, as if wishing to read in his face what preoccupied his own mind.
Leo Tolstoy (trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude), War and Peace, 1869Part of speech and IPA, with a definition in plain English.
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