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    Mom let us grade papers that had multiple-choice, true-false, and fill-in-the-blank answers—just about anything except essay questions, which she thought she had to evaluate because they could be answered correctly in all sorts of different ways.  (source)
    evaluate = think about carefully and make a judgment
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    She looked past him, taking time to evaluate his words, but couldn't see them to an end.  (source)
    evaluate = consider and make a judgment about
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    These observers are here to evaluate what you have learned.  (source)
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    You have successfully completed your final evaluation.  (source)
    evaluation = the process of thinking carefully and making a judgment about something
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create.  (source)
    evaluate = consider and make a judgment about
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    Reenie took a look at him, him and his puffed-up stance, evaluating the gravity of his news, and judged it serious enough to invite him in.  (source)
    evaluating = thinking carefully and making a judgment about
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    I did monthly psych evaluations on each member of the crew.  (source)
    evaluations = assessments (judgments)
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    The Pew Economic Mobility Project studied how Americans evaluated their chances at economic betterment, and what they found was shocking.  (source)
    evaluated = judged
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    My clipboard bobs its way down the line of evaluators.†  (source)
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    "You are an operator, Leamas," Fiedler observed with a laugh, "not an evaluator.†  (source)
    evaluator = someone responsible for making a judgment after thinking carefully about something
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    Then this same Circle could reevaluate him and decide whether he has walked his talk, and whether a sentence is still necessary.  (source)
    reevaluate = think carefully and make a judgment about something again
    standard prefix: The prefix "re-" in reevaluate means again. This is the same pattern you see in words like reconsider, rearrange, and regenerate.
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    Each week he evaluates our progress and makes a note on the wall.†  (source)
    evaluates = thinks carefully and makes a judgment about
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    Only when he had to use his ice axe to cross a patch of hard snow that slid away into the air and was too compacted for step-kicking did he realize that he had not been thinking, and for a moment, as if he were awakening from a dream, he began to re-evaluate his chances and to imagine that he would be able to bring Rafi down.†  (source)
    re-evaluate = think carefully and make a judgment about something again
    standard prefix: The prefix "re-" in re-evaluate means again. This is the same pattern you see in words like reconsider, rearrange, and regenerate.
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