Part 1 in series "Synonyms to substitute high-frequency words."

Synonyms for "Read"

To read something quickly to get a sense of the main ideas, without going in detail.
-- Did you read the newspaper today?
-- Sadly, no. I only skimmed the headlines.

To flip the pages (esp. of a magazine) without necessarily reading the text.

While at the dentist's, I was flipping through the magazines to kill time.
I love leafing through fashion magazines when I'm free.

Flip through
(Leaf through/glance through)

Spend considerable time and effort reading something tiring or boring.

Do you know I had to plough through a 500-page case file for the court session today. To make things worse, it was riddled with grammatical errors.

To attentively look for something specific in a text.

In your reading exercises, you are first asked to skim a text, then read it, and the third step is scanning it to find answers to specific questions.

To read with great attention.

She loves reading books. Every time, I go over, she is pouring over some or the other novel.

To read a long piece of writing laboriously.

She waded through endless books to prepare for her exam. It's a shame she couldn't crack it.