Know
Know verb - To have a clear idea of.
Usage example: I think I know what you're trying to say
Misread
Misread verb - To fail to understand the true or actual meaning of.
Usage example: I misread her body language and thought she was becoming confrontational
Nearby Word: misreading
Both words in one sentence
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In The Amazing Race, many teams have been eliminated because they misread a clue, or didn't notice that all they needed to know was right there.
Source: Read the Freaking Manual - June 21, 2014: G-Mon: Vaporware is getting hits from a Know Your Meme page about a musical genre called "vaporwave" note from a user who read it as "vaporware"—incidentally, I initially misread it that way as well.
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