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The word of the day is ‘ infer.’
The word is a verb, i.e., it demonstrates an action or an occurrence.
Yes, the past form of the word is inferred.
It means:
1. Conclude
2. Deduce
3. Conclude by reasoning in logic.
4. Draw a conclusion
1. Hindi – Tark Karana
2. Spanish – Inferir
3. French Ddéduire
4. Mandarin – Tuīduàn
1. There may be no reason to infer the existence of one from the appearance of the other.
2. I should infer from all I hear that he has got the steam up.
3. You may, perhaps, infer from my remarks that I would have you resign.
4. From which we infer that Shakib was not open to reason on the subject.
5. As the universe shews wisdom and goodness, we infer wisdom and goodness.
Some synonyms of today’s word are:
ascertain, assume, construe, deduce, derive, figure out, glean, guess, interpret, presume, presuppose, reckon, speculate, surmise, believe, collect, conjecture, draw, figure, gather, induce, intuit, judge, reason, suppose, think, understand, arrive at, draw inference, reach conclusion, read between lines, read into, work out, conclude, come to the conclusion, theorize, hypothesize, take it, come to understand, extrapolate, suss etc.
abstain, disbelieve, neglect, disperse, distribute, divide, misunderstand, scatter, misconceive
Quotation:
Hardships of early human life favoured the evolution of certain cognitive tools, among them the ability to infer the presence of organisms that might do harm, to come up with causal narratives for natural events and to recognize that other people have minds of their own with their own beliefs, desires and intentions.
Robin Marantz Henig
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