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peruse-verb [puh-rooz]
1. to read through with thoroughness or care: to peruse a report.
2. to read.
3. to survey or examine in detail.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/peruse

While she was perusing the papers her students had just turned in, she noticed that one of them had been plagiarized.
Tags: latin, middle english, p, verb
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