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  71 Moby Thesaurus words for "ponder":
     appraise, back down, balance, be abstracted, brood, brood over,
     chaw, chew over, chew the cud, cogitate, con over, consider,
     contemplate, debate, deliberate, deliberate over, deliberate upon,
     demur, digest, dwell, evaluate, excogitate, falter, fear,
     hang back, hem and haw, hesitate, hover, hum and haw, introspect,
     jib, meditate, meditate upon, mind, mull over, muse, muse on,
     muse over, pause, perpend, play around with, play with,
     ponder over, pull back, reason, reflect, reflect over, retreat,
     revolve, roll, ruminate, ruminate over, run over, scruple,
     shilly-shally, shy, speculate, stick at, stickle, stop to consider,
     straddle the fence, strain at, study, think, think over,
     think twice about, toy with, turn over, weigh, withdraw, yield