to evaluate
/iˈvæɫjuˌeɪt/, /ɪˈvæɫjuˌeɪt/
verb
to calculate the amount, importance, number, or value of something or someone
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1- Just evaluate your life.
2Evaluate yourselves.
3Continually evaluate whether the advisor's investment strategy aligns with your goals.
4Typically, orthoptist students evaluate at least 1500 patients as part of their clinical studies.
5In 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/
noun
a judgment on the quantity and quality of anything after carefully considering
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1Our evaluations come at a certain time of year.
2Sara oversees evaluation for the MBA admissions team.
3The evaluation died.
4The evaluation consists of three phases.
5A physical examination and lab test will complete the evaluation.
evaluative
/ɪvˈæljuːətˌɪv/
adjective
relating to forming or giving an opinion about the qualities or values of something upon adequate consideration
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1What are the evaluative mechanisms?
2But your mom's evaluative conditioning and musical training makes her think that it is boring, predictable dross.
3They're evaluative questions.
4I choked under the pressure of those evaluative eyes on me.
5Then, with this plan in place, we can finally turn to the first evaluative stage.
examination
/ɪɡˌzæməˈneɪʃən/
noun
the process of looking closely at something to see if there are any issues
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1The body is subsequently taken away for a detailed examination that will establish the cause and time of the victim's death.
2This involves a doctor examining the cervix through a microscope, and possibly taking a small biopsy of tissue for closer examination.
3But examination may sometimes reveal elements of valid concern within them.
4Direct examinations are a show.
5Otoscopic examination revealed a dark brown mass near the tympanic membrane.
to examine
/ɪɡˈzæmɪn/
verb
to analyze someone or something in detail
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1When the lights went on, the young man saw that his neighbor was the doctor who had examined him earlier.
2This involves a doctor examining the cervix through a microscope, and possibly taking a small biopsy of tissue for closer examination.
3A more generous analysis examines the critical value of meta-culture.
4Then, examine the shoes.
5Examine the graduated scales on each arm.
to expect
/ɪkˈspɛkt/
verb
to think or believe that it is possible for something to happen or for someone to do something
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1Future expected inflation.
2Many other drops expected.
3Narcissists will often expect favorable treatment from those around them.
4Four years later, the couple was expecting another baby.
5So expect more online features in games like Watch Dogs and Assassin's Creed.
to extrapolate
/ɛkˈstɹæpəˌɫeɪt/
verb
to estimate something using the information that one has
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1Researchers can then extrapolate details about the planet’s size and orbit based on the magnitude and regularity of that dip.
2We extrapolate out.
3And extrapolate from there, to other issues.
4We can kind of extrapolate a little bit of information from other vaccines.
5They had to extrapolate those curves.
extrapolation
/ɛkˌstɹæpəˈɫeɪʃən/
noun
the 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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1It's several order magnitude extrapolation.
2The Adam Ruins Everything character is an extrapolation of myself.
3So therefore, a sideways trend must be, by extrapolation, equal highs and equal lows.
4And then, the prediction is, the extrapolation back to zero looks kind of like this.
5That'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/
verb
to predict the coming events, based on the existing information
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1Church officials today forecast red ink of nearly $60 million this year.
2Almost none of it was forecast some decades ago.
3Almost none of it was forecast some decades ago.
4In terms of relatively accurate predictions, a surprising number of developers correctly forecasted the presence of cloud-based streaming platforms.
5They forecast the future of France.
forecast
/ˈfɔɹˌkæst/
noun
a prediction of what will happen such as a change in the weather
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1Church officials today forecast red ink of nearly $60 million this year.
2Almost none of it was forecast some decades ago.
3Almost none of it was forecast some decades ago.
4In terms of relatively accurate predictions, a surprising number of developers correctly forecasted the presence of cloud-based streaming platforms.
5They forecast the future of France.
to get something in one
/ɡɛt sˈʌmθɪŋ ɪn wˌʌn/
phrase
to immediately comprehend or guess something in the first try

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to get the measure of
/ɡɛt ðə mˈɛʒɚɹ ʌv/
phrase
to carefully assess someone's character or qualities, or to form an opinion about something

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giveaway
/ˈɡɪvəˌweɪ/
noun
something that inadvertently reveals something or makes something easy to guess
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1I do giveaways.
2Here's your giveaway.
3- I love giveaways.
4Got a live drone giveaway
5I personally really love giveaways.
to guess
/ˈɡɛs/
verb
to consider something as true without being sure
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1These guesses make a lot of sense.
2I guess the author of the Mystery Document.
3- Only one person guessed right.
4Do people guess your ethnicity often?
5I guess '80s.
guess
/ˈɡɛs/
noun
an attempt to give an answer without having enough facts
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1These guesses make a lot of sense.
2I guess the author of the Mystery Document.
3- Only one person guessed right.
4Do people guess your ethnicity often?
5I 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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1It's a hot-cold guessing game.
2So it's a guessing game.
3Sales tax is a guessing game.
4We have been playing guessing games with children all over the world.
5- It's a guessing game.
guesstimate
/ˈɡɛstɪmeɪt/, /ˈɡɛstɪmɪt/
noun
an attempt made to estimate or calculate something without knowing all the facts
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1Guesstimate your business expenses.
2I would guesstimate that it was leading out of the stomach.
3He's a good guesstimate.
4Is that private money supply really just a guesstimate?
5Even your practitioners' guesstimates can be way off the final mark.
guesswork
/ˈɡɛsˌwɝk/
noun
the 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."
2Teige Hanley takes the guesswork out of good skincare.
3No guesswork, no speculation is allowed.
4So it also takes the guesswork out of cooking.
5Avoid the guesswork, avoid the overwhelm with YouTube.
to hazard
/ˈhæzɝd/
verb
to state an opinion, guess, suggestion, etc. even though there are chances of one being wrong
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1Hazard lost his bid for reelection by 16 votes.
2Its hazards are hostile to us all.
3Different problem is moral hazard.
4But fission has its hazards.
5- All right, hazards are on.
to hit the mark
/hˈɪt ðə mˈɑːɹk/
phrase
to succeed in achieving the desired result
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1Melissa: Cat hits the mark, click, get a treat.
2And 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.
3Well, you know that didn � t really hit the mark.
4It’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.
5We're opening shortly, and again, they hit the mark.
hot
/ˈhɑt/
adjective
used 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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1It is a hot afternoon and Jake is sitting on a bench in Notting Hill.
2Hot take alert!
3Hot take number two.
4My face is hot.
5Those guys were hot.
hypothesis
/haɪˈpɑθəsəs/
noun
an explanation based on limited facts and evidence that is not yet proved to be true
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1But we have good genes hypothesis
2They have hypothesis.
3So, here's Hypothesis #2.
4Make hypotheses every day.
5Current poll numbers support Mitt Romney's hypothesis, even after Trump's historic second impeachment trial.
to imagine
/ˌɪˈmædʒən/
verb
to have confidence or faith in the truth or existence of something without absolute proof or certain knowledge
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1They can’t imagine being deaf and dealing with the challenges of it.
2Imagine that a boat capsizes, and 10 survivors swim to shore on a deserted island.
3Can you imagine if I put a big loudspeaker hooked up to your brain, and I could hear all your thoughts right now?
4Imagining deck of cards.
5Imagine those court cards.
to judge
/ˈdʒədʒ/
verb
to form an estimation about the size, amount, etc. of something
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1The judge began the trial.
2How would you judge this current moment in the U.S. and globally?
3Ultimately, our brains judge color and brightness in context.
4Judges go their own way.
5Judges block any adoption requests.

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