Academic Vocabulary Toolkit - Unit 7, Inference

decide

• likely to happen or be true

• a piece of information that helps you find the right answer or understand something difficult

• to choose what you are going to do after thinking about it carefully

• to say that something will happen in the future

predict

• likely to happen or be true

• a piece of information that helps you find the right answer or understand something difficult

• to choose what you are going to do after thinking about it carefully

• to say that something will happen in the future

figure out

• to find a way to do something to to understand something difficult

• to choose what you are going to do after thinking about it carefully

• likely to happen or be true

• a piece of information that helps you find the right answer or understand something difficult

probably

• a piece of information that helps you find the right answer or understand something difficult

• likely to happen or be true

• to find a way to do something or to understand something difficult

• to say that something will happen in the future

clue

• to find a way to do something or to understand something difficult

• likely to happen or be true

• something that you say will happen in the future

• a piece of information that helps you find the right answer or understand something difficult

prediction

• something that you say will happen in the future

• to choose what you are going to do after thinking about it carefully

• to find a way to do something or to understand something difficult

• a piece of information that helps you find the right answer or understand something difficult

My friend gave me three _____, but I still couldn't guess what she was hiding in her hand.

• decide

• figure out

• clues

• predict

I can't _____ how to open this box.

• figure out

• clue

• prediction

• probably

Fill in the blank:

This morning at breakfast I made a __________ that my baby brother would spill his milk, and I was right!

Fill in the blank:

After pouring a glass of orange juice, I _________ that I wanted a lemonade instead.