Sentence:  Pakistan was created in 1947 expressly as a Muslim state , but when the army took over eleven years later it did so on a wave of mass impatience which was directed in part against the inability of political and religious leaders to <WSD>think</WSD> their way through to the meaning of Islam for the modern political situation . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments