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fathomable

adjective as in understandable

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While the seafood we dine on comes from much shallower waters, investigating mercury in the deepest fathoms can help us understand its movement and persistence across the entire ocean, Lamborg says.

Pain and pleasure are conditions of the soul; conditions which have a definite and quite fathomable limit.

They are fathomable; for carried to a certain pitch of intensity they end in ecstasy or they end in death.

They are fathomable; for even in the souls of "the immortals" they are only instruments of life warring against death.

The twitching would disappear for a time for no fathomable reason, and reappear again.

But in every other sense, in all that touches the fathomable business of daylight, she has been a conspicuous success.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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