comprehension

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the ability to understand something

   How anyone could be so cruel is beyond my comprehension.

2. 2
   noun

   an exercise that tests how well you understand a text you have read or heard

   For homework we had a reading comprehension about climate change.

Borrowed from Middle French compréhension, from Latin comprehensiō (“taking together”), from com- (“with, together”) + prehendō (“take”).

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