figure out

• accomplish
• account
• achieve
• acquire
• add
• add up
• add up to
• adduce
• adjudge
• adumbrate
• affect
• aggregate
• amount
• analyze
• announce
• answer
• anticipate
• appraise
• appreciate
• apprehend
• apprize
• approximate
• arrange
• arrive at
• ascertain
• assay
• assess
• associate
• assume
• attain
• audit
• augur
• auspicate
• baffle
• bamboozle
• bargain for
• be afraid
• be aware
• be conscious of
• be effective
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• beat
• beat a dead horse
• become clear
• behold
• believe
• bespeak
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• blueprint
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• boil down to
• brainstorm
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• build castles in air
• calculate
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• call it
• call the shot
• call the shots
• call the turn
• cap
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• catch
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• catch on to
• categorize
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• certify
• characterize
• cheat
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• check out
• chew over
• cipher
• circumvent
• clarify
• class
• classify
• clear
• clear up
• cogitate
• cognize
• collate
• collect
• come
• come across
• come out
• come to terms
• complete
• comprehend
• compromise
• compute
• computer
• con
• conceive
• conclude
• concoct
• confab
• confuse
• conjecture
• consider
• conspire
• construct
• construe
• contemplate
• contrive
• cook up
• count
• count heads
• count noses
• count off
• crack
• crack the code
• craft
• criticize
• croak
• cryptanalyze
• crystal-ball divine
• crystal-ball it
• cut ice
• deceive
• decide
• decipher
• declare
• decode
• decrypt
• deduce
• deduct
• deem
• defeat
• defraud
• deliberate
• demarcate
• demonstrate
• derive
• describe
• descry
• design
• detect
• determinate
• determine
• develop
• devise
• diagnose
• diagnosticate
• difference
• differentiate
• dig
• discern
• disclose
• discover
• discrepate
• discriminate
• disentangle
• display
• dissolve
• distinguish
• divide
• divine
• divulge
• do
• dope
• dope out
• draft
• draw
• draw conclusion
• draw from
• draw inference
• dupe
• elaborate
• elucidate
• end-run
• engineer
• enlighten
• enumerate
• envision
• espy
• establish
• esteem
• estimate
• evaluate
• evolve
• examine
• excogitate
• explain
• explicate
• expose
• expound
• extricate
• eye
• fake out
• fathom
• figure
• figure in
• figure on
• finagle
• find out
• find the solution
• finger
• finish
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• focus
• follow
• foot
• forebode
• forecast
• foreknow
• foresee
• foreshadow
• forespeak
• foretell
• forewarn
• form
• formulate
• fox
• frame
• gain
• gather
• gauge
• generalize
• get
• get a load of
• get across
• get answer
• get down to brass tacks
• get over
• get right
• get something done
• get the hang of
• get the idea
• get the picture
• get the point
• get through
• get to the bottom
• get wise to
• glean
• go
• go well
• grade
• grasp
• guess
• guesstimate
• gull
• handle
• happen
• harbinger
• hash
• hatch
• have
• have a hunch
• have in mind
• have knowledge of
• hazard a
• hazard a guess
• hear
• herald
• hit
• hit upon
• hoax
• hold
• hoodwink
• hypothesize
• ideate
• identify
• illuminate
• illustrate
• imagine
• impress
• in the cards
• include
• indicate
• individualize
• individuate
• induce
• infer
• inspect
• intellectualize
• interpret
• intrigue
• intuit
• invent
• investigate
• iron out
• judge
• juke
• keep tabs
• ken
• kick around
• know
• label
• lay in provisions
• lead astray
• learn
• lick
• line up
• logicalize
• look at
• look over
• look upon
• make a dent
• make arrangements
• make book
• make clear
• make distinction
• make out
• make plausible
• make reasonable
• make sense of
• manipulate
• map
• mark
• mark off
• master
• measure
• meditate
• memorize
• mislead
• mull
• mull over
• muse
• nail
• name
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• notice
• number
• numerate
• observe
• omen
• organize
• outdo
• outfox
• outgeneral
• outguess
• outjockey
• outline
• outmaneuver
• outsmart
• outthink
• overreach
• pan out
• part
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• penetrate
• perceive
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• pick up
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• pinpoint
• pipe-dream
• place
• plan
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• price
• price out
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• psych out
• publish
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• put over
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• puzzle
• puzzle out
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• rank
• rate
• ratiocinate
• rationalize
• reach agreement
• reach conclusion
• read
• read between lines
• read into
• ready
• realize
• reason
• receive
• reckon
• reckon on
• recognize
• reflect
• regard
• register
• rehash
• remark
• remember
• represent
• resolve
• result
• reveal
• review
• revolve
• rough in
• rubberneck
• ruminate
• run
• run down
• run into
• run it up flagpole
• run to
• savvy
• scheme
• scrutinize
• secern
• see
• see coming
• see handwriting on wall
• see it coming
• see something coming
• see the light
• see through
• select
• sense
• separate
• set apart
• set at
• set in context
• set off
• set out
• settle
• severalize
• shape
• show
• sift
• signalize
• signify
• single out
• singularize
• sink in
• size
• size up
• sketch
• soak in
• solve
• soothsay
• sort out
• sound
• specify
• speculate
• spell out
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• square
• steer
• stew
• stop to consider
• straighten out
• study
• succeed
• sum
• suppose
• surmise
• survey
• suspect
• swindle
• swing
• syllogize
• tag
• take account of
• take in
• take meaning
• take measure
• take under consideration
• tale
• talk game
• tally
• telegraph
• tell
• tell apart
• tell between
• tell from
• test
• think
• think of
• think out
• think through
• thresh out
• tick off
• tidy
• top
• tot
• tot up
• total
• tote
• tote up
• touch
• trace
• translate
• trick
• tumble
• turn out
• turn over
• uncover
• understand
• unearth
• unfold
• unlock
• unravel
• unriddle
• unscramble
• untangle
• untie
• up
• valuate
• value
• vaticinate
• verify
• view
• weigh
• win
• wonder
• work
• work out
• worst

• abandon
• abet
• abstain
• agree
• aid
• allow
• assemble
• assist
• begin
• block
• break
• calculate
• cancel
• check
• clear up
• combine
• complicate
• conceal
• confuse
• conjecture
• connect
• cover
• defer
• destroy
• disarrange
• disbelieve
• discard
• discompose
• dislodge
• dismiss
• disorder
• disorganize
• disperse
• displace
• disprove
• disregard
• distribute
• disturb
• divide
• doubt
• empty
• encourage
• enlighten
• estimate
• exit
• explain
• fail
• fix
• fold
• forget
• give
• give up
• go along
• guard
• guess
• guesstimate
• halt
• help
• hesitate
• hide
• ignore
• invalidate
• join
• know
• link
• listen
• lose
• measure
• mend
• misconceive
• misconstrue
• misinterpret
• misplace
• miss
• mistake
• misunderstand
• mix up
• mystify
• neglect
• obscure
• overlook
• pose
• protect
• put off
• question
• receive
• refrain
• remove
• scatter
• search
• secrete
• stagnate
• start
• stop
• subtract
• support
• suppress
• surmise
• surrender
• synthesize
• take
• take out
• tangle
• twist
• unfasten
• unite
• unsettle
• waver
• withdraw
• withhold
• wonder
• worsen
• wrap

• verb
  1. To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
  2. To calculate.

• I need time to figure out this math problem.
• She tried to figure out why the computer wouldn’t start.
• We finally figure out the best way to solve the issue.
• He couldn’t figure out what the instructions meant.
• They worked together to figure out a solution to the puzzle.

ideate

quantify

quantitate

quarterback

calculate

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