Agonize, analyze, apperceive, apply one's mind, appraise, appreciate, ascertain, assess, assume
Be certain of, be convinced of, be credulous, be of the opinion, believe, brainstorm, brood, buy
Calculate, cerebrate, chew over, cogitate, comprehend, conceive, concentrate, conceptualize, conclude, concoct, conjecture, conjure up, consider, construe, contemplate, contrive, cook up
Daydream, debate, decipher, deduce, deem, deliberate, demur, determine, devise, digest, discern, dissect, dither, divine, dwell upon
Equivocate, evaluate, envisage, envision, entertain a thought, establish, estimate, evaluate, evoke, examine, excogitate, expect, extrapolate
Fabricate, fancy, fantasize, fathom, feel, figure, find, flash on, focus, form an opinion, form ideas, formulate, free-associate, fret, fuss
Gather, gauge, get, get an idea, give credence to, glean, grasp, guess, guesstimate
Hallucinate, hanker, hash over, hatch, have a flash, have a hunch, have a notion, have a vision, have in mind, have no doubt, hazard a guess, hope, hypothesize
Ideate, imagine, infer, intellectualize, interpret, introspect, intuit, invent
Judge
Know
Maintain, mean, meditate, mull, muse
Opine, originate
Perceive, percolate, perpend, philosophize, picture, plan, plot, ponder, posit, postulate, predicate, predict, presume, presuppose, prevaricate, propose, propound, puzzle over
Ratiocinate, rationalize, read, realize, reason, recall, reckon, recognize, reflect, regard, rehash, repine, resolve, ruminate
Scheme, scrutinize, sense, sort out, speculate, stargaze, stew, suppose, surmise, suspect, sweat over, syllogize
Take in, theorize, thresh out, toy with an idea, trust, twig
Understand, use one's head
Vacillate, view, visualize
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Nod my Head - A Writing Guide for Wattpad Writers
Non-FictionDo you find yourself writing he nodded, she shook her head, he shrugged, over and over again? It gets tedious, and doesn't help at all when it comes to pin pointing your character's actual emotions. So I've made a book using notes I've been collecti...
