verb · academic
deduce
UK/dɪˈdjuːs/US/dɪˈduːs/de·DUCE
Band 6-7task2speaking
to reach a logical conclusion from given facts or evidence
Examples
“From the footprints, the police deduced that the intruder was wearing heavy boots.”
“We can deduce from the data that consumption rises in summer.”
“Although the sample is small, some patterns can be deduced.”
Band 8 sentence
“Given the experimental controls, we can deduce with reasonable confidence that the intervention caused the observed change.”
Collocations
- deduce from
- be able to deduce
Word family
deduction noundeductive adj
Common mistakes
use 'infer' only→deduce or infer depending on nuance
Say it for a higher band
5guess→6infer→7+deduce
Synonyms
infer
Easily confused
deduce vs. infer
“From the pattern of road use, engineers deduced that public transport was underused.”
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