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guess

v. guess correctly; solve by guessing; "He guessed the right number of beans in the jar and won the prize"

deduce

v. conclude by reasoning; in logic

gather, understand

v. believe to be the case; "I understand you have no previous experience?"

derive, deduce, deduct

v. reason by deduction; establish by deduction

generalize, extrapolate, generalise

v. draw from specific cases for more general cases

interpret, construe, make sense of, make something of

v. make sense of; assign a meaning to; "What message do you see in this letter?"; "How do you interpret his behavior?"

grasp, dig, compass, savvy, comprehend, apprehend, get the picture, understand

v. get the meaning of something; "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?"

say, suppose

v. express a supposition; "Let us say that he did not tell the truth"; "Let's say you had a lot of money--what would you do?"

surmise, suspect

v. imagine to be the case or true or probable; "I suspect he is a fugitive"; "I surmised that the butler did it"

assume, presume

v. take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof; "I assume his train was late"

accept

v. consider or hold as true; "I cannot accept the dogma of this church"; "accept an argument"

assume, presume

v. take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof; "I assume his train was late"

think, believe

v. judge or regard; look upon; judge; "I think he is very smart"; "I believe her to be very smart"; "I think that he is her boyfriend"; "The racist conceives such people to be inferior"

think, guess, suppose, imagine, reckon

v. expect, believe, or suppose; "I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel"; "I thought to find her in a bad state"; "he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"; "I guess she is angry at me for standing her up"

acknowledge, recognize, know

v. declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of; "He admitted his errors"; "She acknowledged that she might have forgotten"

tweeze, pluck with tweezers

v. pluck with tweezers; "tweeze facial hair"

pluck, tweak, pick off, pull sharply, pull off, pull away from

v. pull or pull out sharply; "pluck the flowers off the bush"

express, extract, take out, press out, pull out

v. take liquid out of a container or well; "She drew water from the barrel"

obtain, secure, procure

v. come into possession of; "How did you obtain the visa?"

evolve, derive, educe

v. develop or evolve from a latent or potential state

resume, sum up, summarize

v. give a summary (of); "he summed up his results"; "I will now summarize"

popularize, vulgarize

v. cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use; "They popularized coffee in Washington State"; "Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors"

assume, presume

v. take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof; "I assume his train was late"

reason, think logically

v. think logically; "The children must learn to reason"

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