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I grok that.
(I show my age.)
I don’t grok it?
Grok? he asked, showing his youth…
In one of his science fiction novels, “Stranger in a Strange Land”, Robert Heinlein imagined a quasi-religious ceremony of sharing water, a ritual which led to mutual understanding, called “grokking”.
The word came to have some popular use, mainly among hippies.