Why this word is great
UMBETHINK — [Verb] To recall to mind or consider; to remember or think about. From Middle English umbethenken, from Old English ymbeþencan, ymbþencan, from ymb- ("around, about") + þencan ("to think"). Unlike "bethink" (which suggests a direct, inward reminder) or "recollect" (which targets a specific, filed-away fact), to umbethink is to engage in a slower, orbital contemplation—a literal circumspection of the mind. It is turning a decision over and over like a worn stone in the pocket, stirring the settled ashes of a cold hearth to seek a lingering ember, or walking the dusty perimeter of a forgotten room to sense its atmosphere, not merely its contents. This is the quiet labor of thought that knows some things can only be understood from every side, and never quite from the center.