All 4 Uses of
discern
in
A Hope in the Unseen
- Cedric has seen pictures of that skinny young thing, a striking girl with a quick smile who, as he has discerned from his mother's infrequent recollections, searched for love and found mostly trouble.†
Chpt 1discerned = noticed something that is not obvious
- This prompts no discernible movement.†
Chpt 5discernible = possible to notice or understand
- Cedric turns it down a barely discernible notch.
Chpt 10 *discernible = noticeable
- It's something that has gnawed at him, that a whole side of his past is dark and indiscernible.†
Chpt 14indiscernible = impossible or difficult to notice or understandstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in indiscernible means not and reverses the meaning of discernible. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
Definition:
to notice or understand something -- often something that is not obvious