Instructions

Directions for the following five questions: Answer the questions based on the following information.

For the word given at the top of each table, match the dictionary definitions on the left (A, B, C, D) with their corresponding usage on the right (E, F, G, H). Out of the four possibilities given in the boxes below the table, select the one that has all the definitions and their usages correctly matched.

Question 102

INFER

Solution

The sentence in E goes like this:"We see smoke and infer fire." It means we are infering fire based on some reason. Hence A will go with E.

"Surmise" ,means "to suppose something is true without having proof." In F, the usage of infer is similar where it is mentioned that the user may infer something without any proof. Hence B goes with F.

In  G, infer means to point out something which relates option C.

Hence the correct option is D


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