| VERB | cognition | conclude, reason, reason out | decide by reasoning |
|---|---|---|---|
| cognition | conclude | bring to a close | |
| communication | conclude, resolve | reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation | |
| stative | conclude, close | come to a close | |
| communication | conclude | reach agreement on |
| Sounds | kahnkluw'd | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | accrued ... vicissitude: 66 rhymes with uwd... | |
| Meaning | decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s that CLAUSE | |
| Model | They conclude that there was a traffic accident | |
| Synonyms | reason, reason out | |
| Narrower | deduce, infer, deduct, derive | reason by deduction |
| deduce, infer | conclude by reasoning | |
| find, feel | Come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds | |
| gather | conclude from evidence | |
| generalize, generalise, extrapolate, infer | Draw from specific cases for more general cases | |
| induce | reason or establish by induction | |
| syllogize, syllogise | reason by syllogisms | |
| Broader | think, cogitate, cerebrate | Use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments |
| Spanish | concluir, inferir, razonar | |
| Catalan | concloure, decidir, raonar | |
| Adjectives | conclusive | forming an end or termination |
| Nouns | conclusion | the act of making up your mind about something |
| Meaning | Bring to a close. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "The committee concluded the meeting" | |
| Narrower | perorate | conclude a speech with a formal recapitulation |
| Broader | end, terminate | Bring to an end or halt |
| Spanish | acabar, concluir, terminar | |
| Catalan | concloure | |
| Nouns | conclusion | the act of ending something |
| Meaning | reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE | |
| Synonym | resolve | |
| Narrower | settle, square off, square up, determine | Settle conclusively |
| Broader | agree, hold, concur, concord | Be in accord / accord |
| Spanish | concluir, resolver | |
| Adjectives | conclusive | forming an end or termination |
| Nouns | conclusion | the act of making up your mind about something |
| Meaning | Come to a close. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP | |
| Synonym | close | |
| Broader | end, stop, finish, terminate, cease | Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense |
| Spanish | acabar, concluir, terminar | |
| Catalan | cloure | |
| Meaning | reach agreement on. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Examples |
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| Broader | agree | achieve harmony / harmony of opinion, feeling, or purpose |
| Spanish | concluir | |
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