to evaluate
/iˈvæɫjuˌeɪt/, /ɪˈvæɫjuˌeɪt/
verbto calculate the amount, importance, number, or value of something or someone
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1. - Just evaluate your life.
2. Evaluate yourselves.
3. Continually evaluate whether the advisor's investment strategy aligns with your goals.
4. Typically, orthoptist students evaluate at least 1500 patients as part of their clinical studies.
5. In 2001, researchers evaluated archival samples from two older studies - one of over 10,000 Caucasian male prisoners and another of nearly 2,000 Caucasian women.
evaluation
/iˌvæɫjuˈeɪʃən/, /ɪˌvæɫjuˈeɪʃən/
nouna judgment on the quantity and quality of anything after carefully considering
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1. Our evaluations come at a certain time of year.
2. Sara oversees evaluation for the MBA admissions team.
3. The evaluation died.
4. The evaluation consists of three phases.
5. A physical examination and lab test will complete the evaluation.
evaluative
/ɪvˈæljuːətˌɪv/
adjectiverelating to forming or giving an opinion about the qualities or values of something upon adequate consideration
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1. What are the evaluative mechanisms?
2. But your mom's evaluative conditioning and musical training makes her think that it is boring, predictable dross.
3. They're evaluative questions.
4. I choked under the pressure of those evaluative eyes on me.
5. Then, with this plan in place, we can finally turn to the first evaluative stage.
examination
/ɪɡˌzæməˈneɪʃən/
nounthe process of looking closely at something to see if there are any issues
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1. The body is subsequently taken away for a detailed examination that will establish the cause and time of the victim's death.
2. This involves a doctor examining the cervix through a microscope, and possibly taking a small biopsy of tissue for closer examination.
3. But examination may sometimes reveal elements of valid concern within them.
4. Direct examinations are a show.
5. Otoscopic examination revealed a dark brown mass near the tympanic membrane.
to examine
/ɪɡˈzæmɪn/
verbto analyze someone or something in detail
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1. When the lights went on, the young man saw that his neighbor was the doctor who had examined him earlier.
2. This involves a doctor examining the cervix through a microscope, and possibly taking a small biopsy of tissue for closer examination.
3. A more generous analysis examines the critical value of meta-culture.
4. Then, examine the shoes.
5. Examine the graduated scales on each arm.
to expect
/ɪkˈspɛkt/
verbto think or believe that it is possible for something to happen or for someone to do something
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1. Future expected inflation.
2. Many other drops expected.
3. Narcissists will often expect favorable treatment from those around them.
4. Four years later, the couple was expecting another baby.
5. So expect more online features in games like Watch Dogs and Assassin's Creed.
to extrapolate
/ɛkˈstɹæpəˌɫeɪt/
verbto estimate something using the information that one has
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1. Researchers can then extrapolate details about the planet’s size and orbit based on the magnitude and regularity of that dip.
2. We extrapolate out.
3. And extrapolate from there, to other issues.
4. We can kind of extrapolate a little bit of information from other vaccines.
5. They had to extrapolate those curves.
extrapolation
/ɛkˌstɹæpəˈɫeɪʃən/
nounthe act of using known facts or existing trends in order to conclude or estimate something assuming that the current trends or facts will remain relevant
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1. It's several order magnitude extrapolation.
2. The Adam Ruins Everything character is an extrapolation of myself.
3. So therefore, a sideways trend must be, by extrapolation, equal highs and equal lows.
4. And then, the prediction is, the extrapolation back to zero looks kind of like this.
5. That's the extrapolation of this set of ideas.
finger in the air
/fˈɪŋɡɚɹ ɪnðɪ ˈɛɹ/
phrase(of an estimate or method) unscientific or inaccurate
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to forecast
/ˈfɔɹˌkæst/
verbto predict the coming events, based on the existing information
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1. Church officials today forecast red ink of nearly $60 million this year.
2. Almost none of it was forecast some decades ago.
3. Almost none of it was forecast some decades ago.
4. In terms of relatively accurate predictions, a surprising number of developers correctly forecasted the presence of cloud-based streaming platforms.
5. They forecast the future of France.
forecast
/ˈfɔɹˌkæst/
nouna prediction of what will happen such as a change in the weather
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1. Church officials today forecast red ink of nearly $60 million this year.
2. Almost none of it was forecast some decades ago.
3. Almost none of it was forecast some decades ago.
4. In terms of relatively accurate predictions, a surprising number of developers correctly forecasted the presence of cloud-based streaming platforms.
5. They forecast the future of France.
to get something in one
/ɡɛt sˈʌmθɪŋ ɪn wˌʌn/
phraseto immediately comprehend or guess something in the first try
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to get the measure of
/ɡɛt ðə mˈɛʒɚɹ ʌv/
phraseto carefully assess someone's character or qualities, or to form an opinion about something
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giveaway
/ˈɡɪvəˌweɪ/
nounsomething that inadvertently reveals something or makes something easy to guess
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1. I do giveaways.
2. Here's your giveaway.
3. - I love giveaways.
4. Got a live drone giveaway
5. I personally really love giveaways.
to guess
/ˈɡɛs/
verbto consider something as true without being sure
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1. These guesses make a lot of sense.
2. I guess the author of the Mystery Document.
3. - Only one person guessed right.
4. Do people guess your ethnicity often?
5. I guess '80s.
guess
/ˈɡɛs/
nounan attempt to give an answer without having enough facts
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1. These guesses make a lot of sense.
2. I guess the author of the Mystery Document.
3. - Only one person guessed right.
4. Do people guess your ethnicity often?
5. I guess '80s.
guessing game
/ɡˈɛsɪŋ ɡˈeɪm/
noun*** a situation in which you do not know what is going to happen or what somebody is going to do
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1. It's a hot-cold guessing game.
2. So it's a guessing game.
3. Sales tax is a guessing game.
4. We have been playing guessing games with children all over the world.
5. - It's a guessing game.
guesstimate
/ˈɡɛstɪmeɪt/, /ˈɡɛstɪmɪt/
nounan attempt made to estimate or calculate something without knowing all the facts
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1. Guesstimate your business expenses.
2. I would guesstimate that it was leading out of the stomach.
3. He's a good guesstimate.
4. Is that private money supply really just a guesstimate?
5. Even your practitioners' guesstimates can be way off the final mark.
guesswork
/ˈɡɛsˌwɝk/
nounthe process of guessing something due to insufficient information; the result of this process
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1. "Take the guesswork out of your essay."
2. Teige Hanley takes the guesswork out of good skincare.
3. No guesswork, no speculation is allowed.
4. So it also takes the guesswork out of cooking.
5. Avoid the guesswork, avoid the overwhelm with YouTube.
to hazard
/ˈhæzɝd/
verbto state an opinion, guess, suggestion, etc. even though there are chances of one being wrong
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1. Hazard lost his bid for reelection by 16 votes.
2. Its hazards are hostile to us all.
3. Different problem is moral hazard.
4. But fission has its hazards.
5. - All right, hazards are on.
to hit the mark
/hˈɪt ðə mˈɑːɹk/
phraseto succeed in achieving the desired result
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1. Melissa: Cat hits the mark, click, get a treat.
2. And that doesn't mean that I always hit the mark, it just means that I wanna say something and I wanna make sure that I make a great impact.
3. Well, you know that didn � t really hit the mark.
4. It’s a fine line between something being entertaining vs. seemingly like being in school, and I will never claim that we manage to hit the mark perfectly on every piece created.
5. We're opening shortly, and again, they hit the mark.
hot
/ˈhɑt/
adjectiveused specifically in children’s games to say that someone is getting close in guessing the correct answer or finding a hidden person or object
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1. It is a hot afternoon and Jake is sitting on a bench in Notting Hill.
2. Hot take alert!
3. Hot take number two.
4. My face is hot.
5. Those guys were hot.
hypothesis
/haɪˈpɑθəsəs/
nounan explanation based on limited facts and evidence that is not yet proved to be true
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1. But we have good genes hypothesis
2. They have hypothesis.
3. So, here's Hypothesis #2.
4. Make hypotheses every day.
5. Current poll numbers support Mitt Romney's hypothesis, even after Trump's historic second impeachment trial.
to imagine
/ˌɪˈmædʒən/
verbto have confidence or faith in the truth or existence of something without absolute proof or certain knowledge
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1. They can’t imagine being deaf and dealing with the challenges of it.
2. Imagine that a boat capsizes, and 10 survivors swim to shore on a deserted island.
3. Can you imagine if I put a big loudspeaker hooked up to your brain, and I could hear all your thoughts right now?
4. Imagining deck of cards.
5. Imagine those court cards.
to judge
/ˈdʒədʒ/
verbto form an estimation about the size, amount, etc. of something
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1. The judge began the trial.
2. How would you judge this current moment in the U.S. and globally?
3. Ultimately, our brains judge color and brightness in context.
4. Judges go their own way.
5. Judges block any adoption requests.