Synonyms of the word

review

• n. A second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact in an attempt to gain new insights.
• n. An account intended as a critical evaluation of a text or a piece of work.
• n. (law) A judicial reassessment of a case or an event.
• n. A stage show made up of sketches etc.
• n. A survey of the available items or material.
• n. A periodical which makes a survey of the arts or some other field.
• n. A military inspection or display for the benefit of superiors or VIPs.
• n. A forensic inspection to assess compliance with regulations or some code.
• v. To survey; to look broadly over.
• v. To write a critical evaluation of a new art work etc.; to write a review.
• v. To look back over in order to correct or edit; to revise.
• v. (obsolete) To view or see again; to look back on.
• v. (obsolete) To retrace; to go over again.

accounting

• v. present participle of account.
• n. (accounting) The development and use of a system for recording and analyzing the financial transactions…
• n. A relaying of events; justification of actions.
• adj. Of or relating to accounting.

analyse

• v. British spelling standard spelling of analyze.

analyze

• v. (transitive) To subject to analysis.
• v. (transitive) To resolve (anything complex) into its elements.
• v. (transitive) To separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately.
• v. (transitive) To examine in such a manner as to ascertain the elements or nature of the thing examined;…

appraisal

• n. The act or process of developing an opinion of value.
• n. A judgment or assessment of the value of something, especially a formal one.

assessment

• n. The act of assessing or an amount (of tax, levy or duty etc) assessed.
• n. An appraisal or evaluation.

brushup

• n. Alternative form of brush-up.

canvas

• n. A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.
• n. A piece of canvas cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint.
• n. A basis for creative work.
• n. (computer graphics) A region on which graphics can be rendered.
• n. (nautical) sails in general.
• n. A tent.
• n. A painting, or a picture on canvas.
• n. A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; especially one to show…
• n. Alternative spelling of canvass.
• v. To cover an area or object with canvas.
• v. Alternative spelling of canvass.

canvass

• n. A solicitation of voters or public opinion.
• n. A tally, audit and certification of votes.
• v. To solicit voters, opinions, etc. from; to go through, with personal solicitation or public addresses.
• v. To conduct a survey.
• v. To campaign.
• v. To sift; to strain; to examine thoroughly; to scrutinize.
• v. To examine by discussion; to debate.

capitulation

• n. A reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement.
• n. The act of capitulating or surrendering to an enemy upon stipulated terms; the act of ceasing to resist…
• n. The instrument containing the terms of an agreement or surrender.
• n. An enumeration of the main parts of a subject.

criticism

• n. The act of criticising; a critical judgment passed or expressed; a critical observation or detailed examination…

critique

• n. The art of criticism.
• n. An essay in which another piece of work is criticised, reviewed, etc.
• n. A point made to criticize something.
• n. (obsolete) A critic; one who criticises.
• v. (US) To review something.

drill

• v. (transitive) To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).
• v. (intransitive) To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.
• v. (ergative) To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.
• v. (transitive) To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
• v. (intransitive) To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level.
• v. (transitive) To hit or kick with a lot of power.
• v. (baseball) To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.
• v. (slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.
• v. (transitive) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.
• v. (transitive) To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To entice or allure; to decoy; with on.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
• n. A tool used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into…
• n. The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.
• n. An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds…
• n. A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
• n. A row of seed sown in a furrow.
• n. An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation…
• n. (obsolete) A small trickling stream; a rill.
• n. Any of several molluscs, of the genus Urosalpinx, especially the oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinerea), that…
• n. An Old World monkey of West Africa, Mandrillus leucophaeus, similar in appearance to the mandrill, but…
• n. A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave.

evaluate

• v. (transitive) to draw conclusions from examining; to assess.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) to compute or determine the value of (an expression).
• v. (transitive, computing, mathematics) To return or have a specific value.

examination

• n. The act of examining.
• n. Particularly, an inspection by a medical professional to establish the extent and nature of any sickness…
• n. A formal test involving answering written or oral questions with no or limited access to text books or…

examine

• v. To observe or inspect carefully or critically.
• v. To check the health or condition of something or someone.
• v. To determine the aptitude, skills or qualifications of someone by subjecting them to an examination.
• v. To interrogate.

exercise

• n. Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.
• n. Physical activity intended to improve strength and fitness.
• n. A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.
• n. The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.
• n. (obsolete) That which gives practice; a trial; a test.
• v. To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.
• v. (intransitive) To perform physical activity for health or training.
• v. (transitive) To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.
• v. (now often in passive) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful…
• v. (obsolete) To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to.

follow-up

• n. A subsidiary action taken as the result of an event.
• n. (Internet) A posted message on a newsgroup, etc. in reply to a previous one.
• n. (sports) A shot on goal directly following another that has been saved.
• n. (medicine) The revisiting of a patient in ambulatory care.

followup

• n. Alternative spelling of follow-up.

inspect

• v. To examine critically or carefully; especially, to search out problems or determine condition; to scrutinize.
• v. To view and examine officially.

inspection

• n. The act of examining something, often closely.
• n. An organization that checks that certain laws or rules are obeyed.

judge

• n. A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering…
• n. A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
• n. A person officiating at a sports or similar event.
• n. A person whose opinion on a subject is respected.
• v. (transitive) To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on.
• v. (intransitive) To sit in judgment, to act as judge.
• v. (transitive) To form an opinion on.
• v. (intransitive) To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.
• v. (transitive) To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.
• v. (intransitive) To form an opinion; to infer.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To criticize or label another person or thing.

periodical

• n. A publication issued regularly, but less frequently than daily.
• n. A regularly issued thematic publication that contains the most current information in its field, often…
• adj. Periodic.
• adj. Published at regular intervals of more than one day, especially weekly, monthly, or quarterly.
• adj. Of, or relating to such a publication.

practice

• n. Repetition of an activity to improve a skill.
• n. An organized event for the purpose of performing such repetition.
• n. (uncountable) The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts.
• n. (countable) A place where a professional service is provided, such as a general practice.
• n. The observance of religious duties that a church requires of its members.
• n. A customary action, habit, or behaviour; a manner or routine.
• n. Actual operation or experiment, in contrast to theory.
• n. (law) The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various…
• n. Skilful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; stratagem; artifice.
• n. (mathematics) A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in…
• v. US spelling of practise.

proceeding

• v. present participle of proceed.
• n. The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction.
• n. (especially in plural) An event or happening; something that happens.
• n. The collection of academic papers published in the context of an academic conference.
• n. Progress or movement from one thing to another.
• n. A measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction.
• n. (law) Any legal action, especially one that is not a lawsuit.

proceedings

• n. plural of proceeding.
• n. (law, plural only) The course of procedure in the prosecution of an action at law. (Can we date this quote…
• n. The published record of the actions of a society, or of things done at its meetings.

reappraisal

• n. A second look at or reassess a value of something; a new appraisal.

reassessment

• n. The act of reassessing; a second or subsequent assessment.

recall

• v. (transitive) To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).
• v. (transitive) To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc.
• v. (transitive) To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc.
• v. (transitive) To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To call again, to call another time.
• v. (transitive) To request or order the return of (a faulty product).
• n. The action or fact of calling someone or something back.
• n. Memory; the ability to remember.
• n. (information retrieval) the fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search.

recap

• v. To seal (something) again with a cap.
• v. To replace the worn tread on a tire by gluing a new outer portion. (US English only - Retread in UK English).
• n. A tire that has had new tread glued on.
• n. A recapitulation.
• v. To recapitulate.
• n. A leveraged recapitalization accomplished by increasing the debt to equity ratio.

recapitulation

• n. A subsequent brief recitement or enumeration of the major points in a narrative, article, or book.
• n. (music) The third major section of a musical movement written in sonata form, representing thematic material…
• n. (biology) The reenactment of the embryonic development in evolution of the species.
• n. (theology) The symmetry provided by Christ's life to the teachings of the Old Testament; the summation…

recitation

• n. The act of publicly reciting something previously memorized.
• n. The material recited.
• n. A regularly scheduled class, in a school, in which discussion occurs of the material covered in a parallel…

recollect

• v. To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To collect (things) together again.
• v. To compose oneself.

reexamination

• n. Alternative form of re-examination.

reexamine

• v. Alternative spelling of re-examine.

refresh

• v. To renew or revitalize.
• v. (computing) To reload a document and show any new changes, especially a webpage on the internet.
• v. (computing) To cause (a web browser or similar software) to refresh its display.
• v. To perform the periodic energizing required to maintain the contents of computer memory, the display luminance…
• n. The periodic energizing required to maintain the contents of computer memory, the display luminance of…
• n. (computing) The update of a display (in a web browser or similar software) to show the latest version…
• n. The process of modernizing something.

remember

• v. To recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.
• v. To memorize; to put something into memory.
• v. To keep in mind, be mindful of.
• v. To not forget (to do something required).
• v. To convey greetings from.
• v. (obsolete) To put in mind; to remind (also used reflexively).
• v. (intransitive) To engage in the process of recalling memories.

retrieve

• v. (transitive) To regain or get back something.
• v. (transitive) To rescue (a) creature(s).
• v. (transitive) To salvage something.
• v. (transitive) To remedy or rectify something.
• v. (transitive) To remember or recall something.
• v. (transitive) To fetch or carry back something.
• v. (transitive) To fetch and bring in game.
• v. (intransitive) To fetch and bring in game systematically.
• v. (intransitive) To fetch or carry back systematically, notably as a game.
• v. (sports, transitive) To make a difficult but successful return of the ball.
• v. (obsolete) To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair (a loss or damage).
• n. A retrieval.
• n. (sports) The return of a difficult ball.
• n. (obsolete) A seeking again; a discovery.
• n. (obsolete) The recovery of game once sprung.

retrospect

• n. Consideration of past times.
• v. To look or refer back to; to reflect on.

revaluation

• n. The process of altering the relative value of a currency or other standard of exchange.
• n. A reassessment of the value or worth of something; a reappraisal or reevaluation.

revue

• n. A form of theatrical entertainment in which recent events, popular fads, etc., are parodied. Any entertainment…

scrutiny

• n. Intense study of someone or something.
• n. Thorough inspection of a situation or a case.
• n. An examination of catechumens, in the last week of Lent, who were to receive baptism on Easter Day.
• n. A ticket, or little paper billet, on which a vote is written.
• n. An examination by a committee of the votes given at an election, for the purpose of correcting the poll.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To scrutinize.

study

• v. (usually academic) To review materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them,…
• v. (academic) To take a course or courses on a subject.
• v. To acquire knowledge on a subject.
• v. To look at minutely.
• v. To fix the mind closely upon a subject; to dwell upon anything in thought; to muse; to ponder.
• v. To endeavor diligently; to be zealous.
• n. (obsolete) A state of mental perplexity or worried thought.
• n. (archaic) Thought, as directed to a specific purpose; one's concern.
• n. Mental effort to acquire knowledge or learning.
• n. The act of studying or examining; examination.
• n. Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration.
• n. A room in a house intended for reading and writing; traditionally the private room of the male head of…
• n. An artwork made in order to practise or demonstrate a subject or technique.
• n. (music) A piece for special practice; an étude.

survey

• n. The act of surveying; a general view.
• n. The act of making measurement of relative position of the earth surface.
• n. A particular view; an examination, especially an official examination, of a particular group of items,…
• n. An examination of the opinions of a group of people.
• n. A questionnaire or similar instrument used for examining the opinions of a group of people.
• n. The operation of finding the contour, dimensions, position, or other particulars of any part of the Earth's…
• n. A measured plan and description of any portion of country.
• v. To inspect, or take a view of; to view with attention, as from a high place; to overlook.
• v. To view with a scrutinizing eye; to examine.
• v. To examine with reference to condition, situation, value, etc.; to examine and ascertain the state of.
• v. To determine the form, extent, position, etc., of, as a tract of land, a coast, harbor, or the like, by…
• v. To examine and ascertain, as the boundaries and royalties of a manor, the tenure of the tenants, and the…
• v. To investigate the opinions or experiences of people by asking them questions.

think

• v. (transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's head.
• v. (intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
• v. (intransitive) To conceive of something or someone (usually followed by of; infrequently, by on).
• v. (transitive) To be of the opinion (that).
• v. (transitive) To guess; to reckon.
• v. (transitive) To consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
• v. To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
• v. To presume; to venture.
• n. (chiefly Britain) An act of thinking; consideration (of something).
• v. (obsolete except in methinks) To seem, to appear.

variety

• n. The quality of being varied; diversity.
• n. A specific variation of something.
• n. A number of different things.
• n. A state of constant change.
• n. (taxonomy) A rank in a taxonomic classification, below species and subspecies.
• n. (cybernetics) The total number of distinct states of a system.
• n. (cybernetics) Logarithm of the base 2 of the total number of distinct states of a system.
• n. (linguistics) A term used for a specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is a dialect,…
• n. (algebra, esp. universal algebra) The class of all algebraic structures of a given signature satisfying…
• n. The kind of theatrical entertainment given in variety shows.
• n. The production of, or performance in, variety shows.