Both Uses of
discern
in
After the First Death
- Mommy, they cried, and Daddy, and other words Kate could not: discern, words that were the special vocabulary of childhood to express whatever fear or terror they felt, sensing finally that something was askew in the small and safe world they had occupied until this morning.†
Part 4
- ...after a while, Kate discerned a pattern in their arrivals and departures.
Part 8 *discerned = to notice something that is not obvious
Definition:
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(discern) to notice or understand something -- often something that is not obvious