inspection
careful looking or examination
Roots
- in- / im- (in/into): in, into, within, or on
- spec / spic: look or see
Other words with the spec / spic root
- circumspect: cautious and careful
- conspicuous: easy to notice or clearly visible
- perspicacious: keenly perceptive
- perspicacity: keenness of understanding or insight
- specious: seemingly plausible but actually misleading
- spectacle: something striking to see
- spectacles: glasses used for seeing
Inspection is seeing turned deliberate: look closely enough to judge.
A careful inspection of the sentence revealed the trap.