reading up
Boning up on
Reading up means studying or researching a subject by reading about it, usually in preparation for something: I've been reading up on the company before my interview.
The phrase implies purposeful information-gathering rather than casual reading.
You read up on topics you need to understand better.
- studyingDeliberate learning effort
- researchingMethodical investigation of a topic
- background checkInvestigation of someone's history
- booksBound written works
- hitting the booksStudying intensively
doing homework · investigating · comprehension · fact-checking · source material · academic research · cross-referencing · articles · analyzing · retention · summarizing · deep dive · critical thinking · journals · inference · synthesizing · reviewing · interpretation
- intelligencesmart, IQ, memory, bright, clever
- familiarizationfamiliarizing, acquainting, orienting, introducing, accustoming
reading upskimming
Passing lightly over
scanning · glossing over · browsing · flipping through · speed-reading
reading upignoring
Deliberately not noticing
neglecting · disregarding · tuning out · avoiding · winging it
read, reading, reads, reader, readers, readable, unreadable, readability, reread