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surmise
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    He probably surmised that if he bided his time until August, the Teklanika would subside enough to be crossed.  (source)
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    It was still too dark to see, but Roy surmised from Dana's whimpering gasps that he'd been kicked in a very sensitive part of his body.  (source)
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    Our leopard enclosure in Pondicherry had a wall sixteen feet high at the back; I surmise that Rosie and Copycat never jumped out not because of constitutional weakness but simply because they had no reason to.  (source)
    surmise = conclude
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    Mariam did surmise, by the way Nana said the word, that it was an ugly, loath-some thing to be harami, like an insect, like the scurrying cockroaches Nana was always cursing and sweeping out of the kolba.  (source)
    surmise = form the opinion
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    "Yes, I surmised as much," said Dumbledore, his eyes twinkling.†  (source)
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    It was easy to make my further arrangements; for I was troubled with no inquiries — no surmises.  (source)
    surmises = guesses
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    rapture of so much amateur conjecturing and surmising would flush their faces as irrepressibly as blood!†  (source)
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    6:3 If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; 6:4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, 6:5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.†  (source)
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    Now, the utterly unsurmised appearance of Bartleby, tenanting my law-chambers of a Sunday morning, with his cadaverously gentlemanly nonchalance, yet withal firm and self-possessed, had such a strange effect upon me, that incontinently I slunk away from my own door, and did as desired.†  (source)
    unsurmised = not thought
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsurmised means not and reverses the meaning of surmised. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    He paused, surveying us with the kind of wide-eyed surmise Mr. Carhart always used at this point, and then added in Mr. Carhart's urbane murmur, "Let us pray."  (source)
    surmise = formation of an opinion
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    He was in his late teens, she surmised, roughly her own age.†  (source)
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    That must be it, he surmises, spotting a sorry-looking box of red brick with white limestone archways and ledges: Slater Junior High School.†  (source)
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    They had just noticed it, and were perfectly justified in surmising that if in absolute stillness there was some chance for the ship to keep afloat a few minutes longer, the least disturbance of the sea would make an end of her instantly.†  (source)
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