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Define the word swot

Swat \Swat\ (sw[o^]t), n. [Also spelled swot.]
   1. a sharp blow, especially one made with an instrument in
      the hand.

   2. (Baseball) a powerful hit, especially a home run.

swot
     n : an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected
         or studying excessively [syn: grind, nerd, wonk, dweeb]
     v : study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on
         my Latin verbs before the final exam" [syn: cram, grind away, drum, bone up, get up, mug up, swot up,
         bone]
     [also: swotting, swotted]

45 Moby Thesaurus words for "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