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   ken

   /kɛn/

   noun

   • 1. one's range of knowledge or understanding: "politics are beyond my ken"

   verb

   • 1. know: Scottish, Northern English "d'ye ken anyone who can boast of that?"
   • ▪ recognize; identify: Scottish, Northern English "that's him—d'ye ken him?"

   Word Origin Old Englishcennan ‘tell, make known’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German kennen ‘know, be acquainted with’, from an Indo-European root shared by can1 and know. Current senses of the verb date from Middle English; the noun from the mid 16th century.

   Scrabble Points: 7

   • K

     5

   • E

     1

   • N

     1

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