| verb | serve oneself to, or consume regularly “Have another bowl of chicken soup!” |
| verb | take up mentally “he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe” |
| consumptive | adjective | tending to consume or use often wastefully |
| consumption | noun | the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) |
| consumer | noun | a person who uses goods or services |
| ingestion | noun | the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) |
| absorption | noun | the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another |
| assimilation | noun | the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure |
| assimilator | noun | someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs |