Guess and Scale

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Guess verb - To decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement.

Usage example: I would guess the road goes for about two miles before you have to take a left

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Scale is an antonym for guess.

Nearby Words: guessed, guessing

Scale verb - To find out the size, extent, or amount of.

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Guess is an antonym for scale in measure topic.

Nearby Words: scaled, scaling, scalable

good	good guess	good scale
low	low guess	low scale
exact	exact guess	exact scale
short	short guess	short scale
Other adjectives: current, actual, real, huge, basic, overall.

What is never revealed, leaving the reader to guess where on the scale between Turn Out Like His Father and I Am Not My Father he actually ended up falling.

Source: Follow in My Footsteps
From this you might guess that Democracy on the whole is judged on a different scale than kingdoms, empires and dictatorships.

Source: Analysis / Democracy Is Flawed
Imperiex from the second season of Legion Of Superheroes, who launches a full scale invasion of the galaxy because... he's power hungry, we guess?

Source: Generic Doomsday Villain

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