[responsivevoice] surmise [/responsivevoice] [ser-mahyz ]
The word of the day is ‘surmise.’
The word is a verb, i.e., it demonstrates an action or an occurrence.
Yes, the past form of the word is surmised.
It means:
1. Come to a conclusion
2. Believe
3. Judge
4. Guess
1. Hindi – Shanka
2. Spanish – Conjetura
3. French – Conjecture
4. Mandarin -Tuīcè
1. Some surmise that a fly not unlike the tsetse-fly of Africa killed them out.
2. However, he had no time to surmise or even reply to her greeting.
3. What danger she might at this moment be facing, he could only surmise.
4. For what purpose this umbrella may have been carried we can only surmise.
5. It is not difficult to surmise to what enterprises the President referred.
deduce, hypothesize, infer, opine, presume, pretend, speculate, theorize, assume, conclude, conjecture, consider, fancy, guess, guesstimate, imagine, regard, suppose, suspect, think, glean, understand, sense, believe, judge, reckon, opine etc
Some antonyms of the word are:
abstain, calculate, disbelieve, disregard, forget, ignore, know, leave, measure, neglect, question, wonder
Quotation:
For some time, I’ve said this issue of comprehensive immigration reform is not just an issue about immigration or human rights or civil rights, it’s about our economy. You take 11 million people from out of the dark and into the light. The think tanks have surmised that you are talking about trillions of dollars infused into the economy.
Antonio Villaraigosa
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