swot

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)

OXFORD DICTIONARY

swot, v. & n. Brit. colloq.
--v. (swotted, swotting)
1 intr. study assiduously.
2 tr. (often foll. by up) study (a subject) hard or hurriedly.
--n.
1 a person who swots.
2 a hard study. b a thing that requires this.

Etymology

dial. var. of SWEAT

THESAURUS

swot

beast of burden, bone, commit to memory, con, contemplate, dig, drill, drudge, elucubrate, examine, fag, galley slave, get by heart, get letter-perfect, go over, greasy grind, grind, grub, hack, have by heart, know by heart, learn by heart, learn verbatim, lucubrate, memorize, parrot, peruse, plodder, plunge into, pore over, practice, read, recite, regard studiously, repeat, repeat by heart, restudy, review, slave, slogger, study, swot up, vet, wade through, workhorse