Guess
Guess verb - To form an opinion from little or no evidence.
Refuse
Refuse verb - To be unwilling to grant.
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Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Invader Zim: Zim is so blindly arrogant that not only does he refuse to second-guess himself, he won't accept others doing the same.
Source: Fatal Flaw -
Some refuse to acknowledge their new circumstances while others like Catherine take to them rather well.Simon: I guess I already knew, I just didn't want to think about it.
Source: Video Game / SOMA - Specifically, a woman is being tortured right in front of them with a torture method the protagonists refuse to even describe to the reader, although given the context, an older reader might make an educated guess that it amounted to rape.
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