Inculcate vs Ponder - What's the difference?
inculcate | ponder |
To teach by repeated instruction.
To induce understanding or a particular sentiment in a person or persons.
To wonder, to think of deeply.
To consider (something) carefully and thoroughly; to chew over, to mull over.
* Bible, Proverbs iv. 26
(obsolete) To weigh.
As verbs the difference between inculcate and ponder
is that inculcate is to teach by repeated instruction while ponder is to wonder, to think of deeply.inculcate
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(inculcat)Quotations
{{timeline, 1900s=}} * 1932': Wordless conditioning ... cannot '''inculcate the more complex courses of behaviour. — ''Brave New World , Aldous Huxley * 1943': The right defense against false sentiments is to '''inculcate just sentiments. — ''The Abolition of Man , C. S. Lewisponder
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(en verb)- I have spent days pondering the meaning of life.
- Ponder the path of thy feet.
