ruminate, ponder, philosophise, philosophize, pontificating, bloviate, contemplate, wherefore, woolgathering, sermonise, musing, opine, joggle, expatiate, gabbled, regurgitate, prevaricate, meditate, expostulate, importune, prate, confabulate, rephrases, ramble, expound, hyperbolize, entreat, bestirred, prattle, peradventure, nattering, dawdle, elide, propound, yammer, synopsize, contrive, prognosticate, kvetch, enlighten, delphic oracle, chillax, cognize, seriatim, adumbrate, hallowing, bloviation, hie, problematize, lit crit, declaim, beseech, introspect, blathering, ex cathedra, rhapsodize, fuddle, agonize, monologuing, foreshorten, wallow, kibbitz, behooves, becloud, wouldst, coarsen, speechify, defenestrate, naysay, intellectualize, interject, backbite, babble, emotionalize, split infinitive, twas, posit, extenuate, fetter, digress, dissect, postulating, blabber, blithering, afore, circumscribes, idiocracy, imbibe, presume, psychoanalyze, spellbind, perambulate, balkanise, discoursed, despond, loll, savor, luxuriate, ossify, exclaim, equivocate, disenchant

associate, brainstorm, center, centre, chew over, concentrate, connect, consult, debate, decide, determine, devote, focus, give, link, make up one's mind, mull, mull over, muse, pay, plan, pore, premeditate, puzzle over, reason, reflect, relate, rivet, see, speculate, study, take counsel, think, think about, think over, tie in

cerebrate, deliberate