assimilate
verb
[ əˈsɪmɪleɪt ]
• take in and understand fully (information or ideas).
• "Marie tried to assimilate the week's events"
• regard as similar; liken.
• "philosophers had assimilated thought to perception"
Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin assimilat- ‘absorbed, incorporated’, from the verb assimilare, from ad- ‘to’ + similis ‘like’.
