Expect and Understand

Expect

Expect verb - To believe in the future occurrence of (something).

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Understand and expect are semantically related in anticipate topic. In some cases you can use "Understand" instead a verb "Expect".

Understand verb - To form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information.

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Expect and understand are semantically related in think topic. Sometimes you can use "Expect" instead a verb "Understand".

people	expect people	understand people
word	expect word	understand word
death	expect death	understand death
time	expect time	understand time
Other words: game, story, powers, references.

The conversations with Lorelei, and the Score itself, are considered cryptic and become hard to understand not because they're metaphorical or mystical but because people expect them to be.

Source: Video Game / Tales of the Abyss
Dr. Strangelove: Used in the second sense - "You just can't expect a bunch of ignorant peons to understand a machine like some of our our boys - and that's not meant as an insult Mr Ambassador."

Source: Nothing Personal
You can't expect a bunch of ignorant peons to understand a machine like our boys.

Source: Film / Dr. Strangelove

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