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WordBand 6.5–8Academic (NAWL)
inference
/ˈɪn.fə.ɹəns/
noun
an opinion that you form based on information you already have
- “Select the statements which are observations rather than inferences.”Tatoeba
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Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)